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Sick Of This Crap!
We're in the home (st)retch of the battle to see who can better depict their opponent as the more psychotic child-pornographer. So far Bush is winning.
This week's issue features:
* Zell Miller - the unanimous Turd of the Week
* Professor Pissed Contributes to the Partisan Divide
* Reemergence of the rare 45 month compassionate conservatism locust
* Kobi Jams at the Buzzer
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Re: Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Marty-
I am fond of cross-country ballroom dancing, synchronized naked bungee
jumping, and Irish-Yiddish wrestling.
And, by the way, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is a substitute teacher in my
school...well, he was until he used the word "masturbate."
love,
Willow
Thanks, Willow!
Knowing that you're in PA, are you sure the good Dr. wasn't discussing my dad's fishing prowess?
We both know he's a master baiter. (you may groan now)
(Willow is one of the most gifted musicians ever to come out of my little backwoods backwater town - we've known each other since grade school.)
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Not quite as hot as yesterday, but still warm enough that Jo, the (lucky) lizard spent the afternoon in the house.
Last Friday had to take Winken (AKA Winkie) the cat to the vet. She was acting peculiar and left wet spots wherever she sat.
Doctor said she probably ate something bad, which caused her to have what the kid calls 'the poops'.
A couple of days later, between the antibiotics and a human wiping her (freshly shaved) ass after usage, she's doing much better.
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Willie Nelson, right, speak to the media at the 'Reinvest in America; Put America Back to Work' event in Charleston, W.Va., Monday, Sept. 6, 2004. The free outdoor concert and rally was billed as a focus on jobs, health care and education.
Photo by Jon C. Hancock
To Pursue Best Picture Oscar
Michael Moore
Michael Moore says he won't submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for consideration as best documentary at this year's Academy Awards. Instead, he's going for the bigger prize of best picture.
In the midst of the presidential campaign, Moore's announcement is a strategic move for his Oscar campaign. Documentaries and animated films have their own categories, but the conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that those niche awards can limit a film's appeal in the overall best picture class.
Moore said he and his producing partner, Harvey Weinstein, agreed "Fahrenheit 9/11" would stand a better chance if they focused solely on the top Oscar.
Moore also hinted in a recent interview in Rolling Stone he would like the movie to play on television before the presidential election. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, playing on TV would invalidate its contention in the documentary category, but not for best picture. With the movie coming out on DVD Oct. 5, it's not clear whether the TV deal would happen.
Michael Moore
Honors Working People
Labor Day Concert
To actor and activist Danny Glover, a previous visit to Appalachia made West Virginia seem an ideal host for a star-studded Labor Day political concert.
"It is the working people of this country who have served this country to deliver change when change was needed," Glover said after his speech at the "Reinvest in America; Put America Back to Work" event that drew several thousand people to Charleston's riverfront. "Here is where we've seen the evolution of the organized labor movement, of the unions."
A veteran of more than 60 films, from "The Color Purple" and "Angels in the Outfield" to the "Lethal Weapon" series, Glover said West Virginia also is a good forum because Wal-Mart has become its largest private employer.
"We're talking about the need for a livable wage," Glover said. "We're talking about real benefits like health care coverage."
"Working people have seen the richest 1 percent get the tax breaks," he said. "They've seen a jobless recovery. They've seen the outsourcing of jobs. They've seen wages falling."
For a lot more, Labor Day Concert
B-Movie Favorites on Show at Venice
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is in Venice to present a retrospective of Italian films, but don't look for masterpieces from the likes of Federico Fellini or Luchino Visconti in the line-up.
Instead, "Cannibal Holocaust," "Orgasm" and "The Big Gundown" take the honors as some 20 action flicks, erotica and horror B-movies unspool in the new "Italian Kings of the Bs" section of the Venice Film Festival.
"To actually see them all in Italian, restored and in their original form, it's a movie geek dream," Tarantino gushed at a news conference.
Tarantino said the director of the Venice Film Festival, Marco Muller, approached him with the line-up and asked him to present the retrospective while Tarantino was heading up the jury at the last Cannes festival.
"When I saw the list, my eyes popped out of my head and I said 'I'm there'. A couple of these films I've been waiting my whole life to see."
Many of the creators of these movies, including Di Leo, have already died virtually anonymous deaths.
But one blonde, buxom star of the era, Barbara Bouchet, who is now 61, was on hand to talk about the revival.
Quentin Tarantino
London Date
Yoko Ono
Experimental artist Yoko Ono brings her live performance to London for a sold-out show this month but is keeping the exact theme under wraps.
Spokesman Murray Chalmers said Ono would not perform her "Cut Piece" during the event on September 15, as reported in a British newspaper at the weekend, but was sure to surprise.
"Anything could happen," he said of the show at the Tate Britain gallery.
Yoko Ono
Escapes Unhurt in New Jersey Accident
James Gandolfini
A vehicle driven by James Gandolfini, who plays mob boss Tony Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos, was hit by a suspected drunken driver over the weekend. The actor was not injured, police said.
Gandolfini was in town for Saturday's Rutgers-Michigan State football game when his sport utility vehicle was hit broadside by a driver who police said ran a red light. Gandolfini is a Rutgers alumnus.
Charles Collins, 72, of New Brunswick, was issued a summons for drunken driving and was released, police said. He was not hurt.
James Gandolfini
Singer Wyclef Jean is one of the grand marshals of the annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade, Monday, Sept. 6, 2004, along Eastern Parkway in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Doesn't Like Reality Show
Bob Denver
The original Gilligan doesn't think a new reality television show based on his classic sitcom will work well.
"'Gilligan's Island' is one show that they've never tried to copy. They couldn't burlesque it, because we had done so much of that. And they couldn't satirize it, because we had done so much of that, too. So producers just left it alone. I really don't think this show is going to work," Bob Denver, who played Gilligan on the original "Gilligan's Island," said from his Princeton (W.Va) home.
"The Real Gilligan's Island," set to debut on TBS in November, will feature seven castaways: a real-life skipper, a first mate, a millionaire couple, a movie star, a professor and an innocent farm girl. The show will pit them against the elements to see if they can devise a way to get off the island.
Bob Denver
Turns 500
Michelangelo's David
Most women would agree he has a very nice rear end. Tall and handsome, he has the kind of Baywatch muscles that would make many of both sexes drool.
One small detail: he is about to celebrate his 500th birthday. He is Michelangelo's statue of David.
On Wednesday, 500 years to the day that the icon of Renaissance male beauty was unveiled for the people of Florence, his modern-day co-citizens are kicking off a year of events to celebrate David in style.
There will be concerts, fireworks, symposiums and exhibitions. There is, of course, an official David 500 T-shirt.
Michelangelo's David
$850,000 Housekeeping Bill
Sony Exec
A Sony movie executive and his wife have been ordered to pay their former maid $850,000 to settle charges of enslavement and assault and battery.
Nena Ruiz last week received the award from a Los Angeles jury, which decided the former housekeeper was entitled to back wages and punitive damages. The jury found that James Jackson, a vice president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures Entertainment, had kept Ruiz against her will and paid her only $300 for a year of work at his Los Angeles home, according to a report from the Associated Press. Jackson's wife has additionally been held liable for slapping Ruiz and pulling her hair.
Ruiz claimed the Jacksons had taken away her passport and threatened to call immigration officers if the maid tried to leave. The Jacksons have denied the charges and could appeal the jury's decision.
The AP reports that Sony has already suspended Jackson and plans to fire the VP.
Sony Exec
Woo Nam-kyoon, right, president of LG Electronic Digital Display Company, poses for photographers next to the world's largest 55-inch all-in-one LCD TV during its unveiling in Seoul Monday, Sept. 6, 2004. It goes on sale in the domestic market Monday with the price of 19.5 million won (US$17,000).
Photo by Lee Jin-man
To Increase Security
Munch Museum
Oslo's Munch Museum closed on Monday for security upgrades two weeks after robbers stole one of the world's most famous paintings, "The Scream," by simply yanking it off the wall in front of stunned tourists.
The bold daytime theft was the first armed robbery at a gallery in Norway, raising questions over whether Norwegians have been too naive and art security too lax in the tranquil Nordic nation.
"We are closed and will be closed for three weeks to install alarms, among other things," a museum official told Reuters.
Munch Museum
Telethon Raises $59.4M
Jerry Lewis
The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon raised $59.4 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, but organizers said Monday that power outages and other disruptions from Hurricane Frances contributed to a decline over last year.
Donations totaled 1.8 percent less than last year's $60.5 million.
Only one other telethon in the 1980s failed to surpass the previous year's total.
Jerry Lewis
Former Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Jack Valenti, left, poses with Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland after an awarding ceremony at the French Culture ministry, Monday, Sept. 6, 2004 in Paris. Valenti, 82, was awarded on Monday with the distinction of Officer of the Legion of Honor by French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.
Photo by Francois Mori
Tate Modern's 2nd Biggest-Ever Crowd
Edward Hopper
More than 400,000 art-lovers crowded London's Tate Modern over the summer for painter Edward Hopper's soul-searching chronicle of 20th century America, making it the gallery's second biggest draw ever.
Only an exhibition featuring the combined talents of French fauvist Henri Matisse and Spanish cubist Pablo Picasso attracted larger crowds, in 2002, Tate officials said.
The exhibition was the late artist's first in England for 23 years, featuring works by a pictorial poet who caught the mood of America from the Depression of the 1930s through World War II to the revolutionary 1960s.
Edward Hopper
In Memory
Suzanne Blackmer
Actress Suzanne Blackmer, remembered not only for her career but also for her ability to hold Donald Trump at bay when he wanted her to abandon her Manhattan apartment, died Aug. 27. She was 92.
(Suzanne Kaaren)
Blackmer died at the Lillian Booth Home of the Actors' Fund of America in Englewood, N.J., where she was undergoing rehabilitation after suffering pneumonia. Blackmer appeared in the Three Stooges' movie Disorder in the Court and was the heroine in the Bela Lugosi low-budget movie The Devil Bat. More recently, she appeared in an uncredited role in The Cotton Club.
She paid a pittance for the third-floor apartment at 100 Central Park South - just $203.59 US a month because of rent control.
Then, Trump bought Blackmer's apartment building. With other apartments on the same street with the same view renting for $5,000 a month, Trump wanted more for her apartment and others like it.
But she was one of the successful plaintiffs against Trump. In 1998, a New York court ruled that Trump could turn the apartments into condos and sell them - Blackmer's was assessed at $750,000 then - or the renters could stay, with rent control.
Blackmer stayed in the apartment until she got sick last winter.
Suzanne Blackmer
Three female Bengal tiger cubs, with gold, white, and brown fur colors, from left, look from their box on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004, in a photo released by the Hollywood and Safaripark in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, western Germany, on Monday, Sept. 6, 2004. Born on July 15, 2004, the three yet unnamed cubs surprised the park's director and wardens by presenting themselves in three different fur colors. Their parents - brown Bengal tigers Rani and Ratscha - both carry recessive white genes. Director Fritz Wurm explained that the rare golden fur of one of the girl cubs is a mix of brown and white.
Photo by Udo Richter
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