Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 15 October, 2002
Tuesday
15 October, 2002
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #24
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
"All Rights Reserved and All Wrongs Avenged"
ISSUE #24
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BELIEVE IT OR ELSE
I was at the Weekly during its first 10 years, back when it came out of a two story house near Sunset and Western, helping shape it into an alternative with a sense of humor. Then the paper was sold and everyone old was out. It eventually ended up under the auspices of the Village Voice, turning it into the similar humorless screed it remains today. They've printed me on anniversaries where I commented on old stories, but other than that, they've turned down every single submission I've made since.
So I went over to New Times, a brand new paper with a sense of humor, and they gave me a
cover story, then mysteriously turned down everything else, including
a sequel that
ended up on the cover of the Desert Post Weekly.
Figuring an "alternative newspaper" could make use of some of the information I dig up, I gave their managing editor, Jack Cheevers, a subscription to dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY and
here are a few of his comments. lack of capitals intact: "ugh, more sludge from my favorite moron" "on second thought, mike, your stuff doesn't even rise to the level of sludge. it's more like kibble" "if i read your gaseous literary emissions, i'd probably go insane! you don't want that on your hands, now do you, mike?" "get off your fat ass and start engaging the world." "get a job, for chrissakes. your family must be ashamed of you." "Helen A. Handbasket? damn, that's clever, mike. have you ever considered just killing yourself? i'll give you the barbituates." (Okay, I've got to comment on this one. Putting down Helen because her name is a bad pun is like putting down Spinal Tap for making bad music. That's the whole point. What do you expect from hell, GOOD puns?) "can you please stop sending me this crap? i'd really really appreciate it."
Though I mourn some of the voices that have been silenced, go ahead and ask me whether I'm sad this guy is out of work. Hey Jack, get a job, for chrissakes. Your family must be ashamed of you.
Why Republicans Aren't Entertaining
Last issue I asked for help finding one single pro-Bush site that was ENTERTAINING.
I got this...
"because we don't HAVE to do stupid little jingles in order to get votes!!! WE REPUBLICANS don't stoop to such immature levels!!!!! DUH!"
Really Important
Even more Important
Congress Grants President Authority To Use Military Force In All Family Disputes
In an unprecedented move, the United States Congress has granted President George W. Bush the authority to use military force in all future conflicts in which someone has been bad to him or members of his family.
More...
Hypocrisy of the Week
While we attack Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons against his own citizens, the United States Department of Defense has petitioned the UN for a ruling on the use of its new compressed high potency Valium gas for the purposes of
domestic riot control.
Special Bible Quote for Congress
"By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive."
- Matthew 13:14 -
Paranoid Site of the Week
Really Bad Idea of the Week
(Which means we're going to be seeing a lot of it)
Scariest Site of the Week
Conservative Petitions has a petition to stop stem-cell research, a petition to stop the NPR, a petition to put school prayer back in schools, and dozens more horrifying ideas.
Wasted Tax Dollars of the Week
The National Institute of Health is planning to spend $24 million on a retirement facility for
chimpanzees. "This Club Med for monkeys illustrates how easy it is for government bureaucrats to go bananas with other people's money," said Libertarian Party Communications Director George Getz. "Amazingly, these chimps will get better treatment in their golden years than the chump taxpayer."
Honorable mention for wasted tax dollars:
* $750,000 for grasshopper research in Alaska.
* $2 million to house a worm collection at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC.
* $400,000 to study manure management at the National Swine Research Center in Iowa.
* $4.2 million for a shrimp aquiculture research project in six states.
* $400,000 for the Montana Sheep Institute. (maybe we'll finally find out if they like anal sex)
Calling All Breastfeeding Mothers
Calling All Terrorists
Here's the page Saddam is studying right now - an in depth flash with really cool graphics showing precisely the
U.S options concerning invading Iraq.
Internet Radio Show of the Week
Is there an anti-Rush Limbaugh? You bet. Check out
Meria Heller.
Dear Dr. Hollywood
I began writing scripts for The Simpsons a few years back and have many episodes ready to go for animation. I actually sent one to Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), but never expected to hear back from him since FOX's web site said they will not even look at materials without an agent. Since then, I have moved into writing movies and have my first one near completion. I'm wondering how to go about finding an agent. I'm located in the Midwest, and had hoped to find someone in the Chicago area. I was also wondering if writers who intend on doing this full time need to move to an LA or New York to become successful?
Sincerely,
Gregg
Gregg,
Thank you for braving time and space to contact me.
You've got as much chance going to Hollywood and writing for The Simpsons as you have going to Houston and becoming an astronaut. The Simpsons is written by the guys who write The Simpsons. Forget it.
One strange rule of television is that you shouldn't submit a writing sample for a show to the actual show, i.e. submit
your Drew Carey writing sample to Just Shoot Me, not Drew Carey. Why? Because the producers of Drew Carey know so much more about the show than you do that they are much more likely to pick up on mistakes. You could easily have a character say something that they know he would never say, or have a plotline they've already rejected, and suddenly you're history. So you've already broken rule #1. On the other hand, writing for the big screen you've actually got a chance of someone buying it and making it the way you wrote it.
If your goal is to make Hollywood movies, there is absolutely no place you can be other than Hollywood. Writers in particular have to make endless pitches and take endless meetings. It's ALL personal contacts. Think about the best possible thing that could happen after someone reads your script. They want to meet you. You've got to be at their office in five minutes. Can't do it from the Midwest. Remember, whatever gig you're going after, there are at least 1,000 others in line ahead of you, with more
experience, better resumes, and, most importantly, they're HERE.
It's pretty much the same thing with getting an agent. Unless an agent has a client who recommends you, they will not read you. You've only got one script and you want an agent? Forget it. They want writers with a dozen scripts, one in every genre, things they can pitch all over the place. They want clients who will bring them commissions on endless sales, not just one. If they send your script to someone who says "I like the writing but don't want to make the movie," they want to be able to send over another of your scripts IMMEDIATELY.
Writing for the films is a profession. It's full time. If you don't absolutely devote yourself to it, get to Los Angeles, and start taking meetings, you don't have a chance.
WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?
October 14, 2002
UNDO THE COUP
CARTOON FROM HELL
Inspired by the commercial success of the United States Army's "Boot Camp" video game, the General Staff of the French Army has announced plans to market
"
Ultimate Surrender," a video game based upon the proud military traditions of the Gauls.
JOINT RESOLUTION FROM HELL
Joint Resolution to Authorize the use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.
Whereas the nation of Iraq has substantial oil and gas reserves...
HISTORY LESSON FROM HELL
"We lack the complete picture, but it is painfully evident that key information from the intelligence community was ignored or suppressed. Many of the men who obtained and handled these secrets were haunted by the knowledge that they had information that could have averted this tragedy. Some had simply passed the information on to their superiors and never questioned what was done with it. Others had to be ordered to keep silent." They're talking about 9/11, right? Nope, they're talking about
Pearl Harbor.
LEGISLATION FROM HELL
If Sen. Fritz Hollings'
Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act passes, you'll have to install government censorship devices in your digital answering machine, your Wallace and Gromit talking alarm clock, your TinkleToonz Musical Potty, your Shop With Me Barbie toy cash register, and other digital devices listed
here.
SATAN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
To bake or microwave potatoes more quickly, soak them for about 20 minutes in salt water before baking.
QUOTES FROM HELL
"Is it (America) saying, in a sense, that might is right? Is there something called the rule of law? Is there an international law, which acts to rein in power so that power is accountable? Do you find this doctrine of pre-emptive strikes frightening? It is scary in the sense that if it is legitimate and valid, then we'd have a heck of a business holding back mavericks saying, 'Such-and-such country harbors terrorists and is posing a threat to us.' India and Pakistan, I think, are particular examples where it is going to be very difficult to say to them, 'No, you can't.'"
"It's easier to get forgiveness than permission."
- Jimmy Carr -
"At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go back in the same box."
- Italian Proverb -
"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war."
- Abbie Hoffman -
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein -
"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."
- Lyndon B Johnson -
"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace."
- Benjamin Franklin -
"The administration isn't targeting Iraq because of 9/11. It's exploiting 9/11 to target Iraq."
- blah3.com -
"It is both possible and moral, to love one's country and hate its government."
- Dr. Walter Williams, George Mason University Economics Dept. -
"Most people think they're thinking when they're really just rearranging their prejudices."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
"I gotta get my life some writers."
- Calvin & Hobbes -
"I can't understand why you use a computer when you have so much talent."
- artist R. Crumb to artist Trici Venola -
"So, let me get this straight: Bush is saying he wants to invade Iraq, and Iraq is, like, trying to talk him out of it? Is this how invasions are usually handled?"
- Audra Franks, Homemaker -
SONG FROM HELL
Irresolution Blues
(To be sung to "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" by Fred Ahlert & Joe Young)
By
Madeleine Begun Kane
I had to rubber stamp that Iraq resolution.
And make believe it's right to do.
The GOP is tough to beat.
I'm scared to go down in defeat.
And so I kissed George Bush's bottom.
Please don't think I'm rotten.
I'm gonna smile and say "Please give me absolution."
And beg for bucks and votes from you.
I had to rubber stamp that Iraq resolution
And make believe it's right to do.
Didn't want to rubber stamp that Iraq resolution.
It really made me feel quite blue.
The GOP is tough to beat.
I need to hold on to my seat.
And so I said "Bush, go get Saddam."
Although war's misbegotten.
I'm gonna smile and say "Please give me absolution."
And beg for bucks and votes from you.
I had to rubber stamp that Iraq resolution.
And make believe it's right to do.
SITES FROM HELL
For all Americans who never travel and are always bragging about how we're the best country on earth, Salon has an
article on how Norway would be improved if George W. Bush got his hands on it.
"After more than half a century of high-quality, universal and equal healthcare treatment for all, Norwegians will adopt the more elegant pay-as-you-go American system. The best medicine will be reserved for those who can afford it."
The rest of the article is for subscribers to Salon's "premium" service since Salon has adopted the elegant pay-as-you-go American system. The best articles are reserved for those who can afford them.
If any out there have this service, you have my permission to copy the article and send it to me.
NOT on Salon's premium service is this
spectacular speech given by National security expert William M. Arkin on Sept. 25 to the U.S. Naval War College. He makes the solid argument that Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration is too incompetent - and too arrogant - to stop them.
A chickenhawk is someone only interested in sending OTHER people's children off to war while protecting their own ass. Check out the
chickenhawk hall of fame.
You know that flight school in Florida where Mohamed Atta learned to fly? Turns out it ain't no ordinary flight school. Turns out the airfield has a long history of being used as a training base for paramilitary operations by federal authorities, that it has been utilized in covert U.S. operations since the earliest days of the Cold War, and was even targeted by the Soviet Union in the event of nuclear war. The federal activity continues to this day. Read the whole story at
TheMadCowMorningNews.
The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence. The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing. In recent days, those
missing pieces have finally begun to fall into place.
Ever want to ride on NASA's famous Vomit Comet - the 747 that mimics outer space weightlessness? You can't, but next year there could be commercially available
Zero-G flights.
Forget what he said on
60 Minutes, see it for yourself. Here's a
RealTime video (7MB) or a downloadable
Quicktime video (26MB) of how the man pretending to be the President of the United States actually reacted upon being told his country was being attacked.
Here's a suicide bomber's father who says Let Hamas and Jihad Leaders Send Their Own Sons.
Anybody who was the least bit snookered by Bush's war speech has absolutely got to check
this out.
If you don't
vote Democratic this election, one man will control all three branches of government.
According to
this doctor, George W. Bush has Antisocial Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Narcissistic personality disorder, and Dependent Personality Disorder.
Harry Shearer's latest
Le Show has a great rant against Colin Powell's son in charge of the FCC.
Don't miss the
Whoops-O-Matic, which proves we could beat Saddam if we only had a Delorean.
If Saddam really is as dangerous as Bush says, that means our sanctions (read about them at
The Iraqi Peacebuilding Program), which have killed millions of Iraqi babies (according to
UNICEF) were completely pointless.
Urge your senators to vote against judicial nominees who are hostile to values of freedom, reproductive choice, privacy and justice.
Don't let this happen to you.
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Satan
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another cool, cloudy day.
The roofers came back for their ladder, but didn't re-align the Dish dish like they said they could.
Caught the end credits of Dave, where they let Paul & 'the Band' play! Very nice touch.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS opens with a fresh 'JAG', then a fresh 'The Guardian', and a fresh 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Faith Hill and Thandie Newton.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Patrick Swayze and Richard Jeni.
NBC starts with a fresh 'In-Laws', then a fresh 'Just Shoot Me', then a fresh 'Frasier', a fresh 'Hidden Hills', and then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are David Arquette, 13-year-old cow patty collector Corbin Corona, and Tracy Chapman.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Dave Chappelle, Seth Green, and Badly Drawn Boy.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 6/6/02) the scheduled guests are Dave Attell and Dashboard Confessional.
ABC has a fresh '8 Simple Rules', a fresh 'Jim', a fresh 'Bonnie', a fresh 'Less Than Perfect', and a fresh 'NYPD Blue'.
The WB has a fresh 'Gilmore Girls' and a fresh 'Smallville'.
Faux has no more baseball til Saturday night. Expect reruns of 'That 70's Show', 'Cedric The Entertainer', and 'John Doe'.
UPN offers a fresh 'Buffy' and a fresh 'Haunted'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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North American Wife Carrying Contest
Nate & Christie
Nate Pearson and Christie Rice of Somerville, Mass., stumble through the water hazard during the North American Wife Carrying contest, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002, at the Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine. The man had to carry
the woman over a 278-yard obstacle course. The fastest couple won five times the woman's weight in cash, her weight in Red Hook beer, and the right to compete at the world championship in Finland. Sixteen couples competed.
Photo by Robert F. Bukaty
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Product Placements
'The Sopranos'
Think the only brand names on HBO's "The Sopranos" are Satriale's Pork Store and the Bada Bing strip club? Fuhgeddaboudit.
For marketers, "HBO is virgin territory," said Patti Ganguzza, president of the New York-based product placement firm AIM Productions.
In this season's premiere, the Soprano family matriarch, Carmela, wanders down a grocery store aisle containing boxes of SnackWells cookies. In another episode, a glimpse into the Soprano refrigerator
reveals dozens of bottles of Snapple beverages. Other prominently featured brand names have included the brokerage Charles Schwab, Honeycomb cereal, and Entenmanns' baked goods.
Unlike movies, which often feature paid product placements, most television shows don't accept payment -- at least not directly. Marketers pay firms like AIM a retainer to set up favorable deals, and
the production companies accept goods as barter to help defray costs.
Product placement can be a nightmare for marketers if a brand is negatively portrayed.
Ganguzza was responsible for one of the most infamous product placements in recent years: the Junior Mints episode of NBC's "Seinfeld," in which one of the chocolate mint candies is accidentally
dropped into a patient during surgery. But the executive narrowly escaped an embarrassing incident for the brand and her client, Warner Lambert.
As originally written, the Junior Mints episode was to have ended with a doctor saying, "That stuff will kill you," according to Ganguzza. But after running the script past Warner Lambert for
approval, the line was changed to: "Those can be very refreshing!"
For a lot more, 'The Sopranos'
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'Ashamed' to Be in Music Business
Joni Mitchell
Hell hath no fury like Joni Mitchell on the subject of the music industry.
The veteran singer/songwriter, on the promotional trail for a new album, says she is "ashamed" to be part of the music business and may stop recording.
"I just think it's a cesspool," the 58-year-old folk-rock icon said in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
"I hope it all goes down the crapper. I would never take another deal in the record business, which means I may not record again, or I have to figure out a way to sell over the Net
or do something else. But I'll be damned if I'll line their pockets."
"It's tragic what MTV has done to the world," opined Mitchell, who was voted the fifth greatest woman in rock 'n' roll by MTV's sister channel VH1. Both networks are owned by Viacom Inc .
Mitchell has also previously savaged her former label boss David Geffen for not paying her any royalties, although he has countered that her albums never sold enough copies
to cover the advance payments that she received from him.
Joni Mitchell
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'Becoming a Nation' Tour
'Penn and the Indians'
'Penn and the Indians,' part of an exhibit 'Becoming a Nation' that is going on a two-year U.S, tour. 'Like movie-making,' say the notes that will go with the show, 'history
painting was a way of creating larger-than-life myths about the past. Images of Anerican history served the people of a new nation who were eager to imagine themselves as important
players within historical time.'
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Man With An Opinion
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer says George W. Bush is a big sissy. While touring Europe with his wife, Norris Church Mailer, and George Plimpton, doing a play about Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mailer recently told a leading German
newspaper, "George Bush should have become a dancer." For Mailer - who was outspokenly anti-American in the 9/11 aftermath - calling a man a dancer is no compliment; he once wrote a novel titled "Tough Guys Don't Dance." He went
on to tell the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "Bush wiggles through world politics - one of his great talents. Never before have I seen an American president who moves so gracefully before TV cameras. Everything he does seems
to have been choreographed, even when he feeds his dog. He has a natural poise, like a ballet dancer. Mankind would have benefited from him more as a dancer than as president."
Norman Mailer
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Changing Commercials
'Dell Dude'
Dell Computer Corp.'s sales of personal computers have soared since the advent of the fictional pitchman "Steven," known for his catchphrase, "Dude, you're getting a Dell!"
But perhaps fearful of a backlash against the ubiquitous Steven, who playfully harangues friends and strangers into buying a Dell PC, the company said on Monday it is
moving on to a new, less dude-centric advertising campaign.
In two years, Steven, played by 21-year-old New York University acting student Ben Curtis, has become a cult advertising figure not seen since the likes of Joe
Izuzu and Clara Peller of Wendy's "Where's the beef?" fame. Inundated by calls from adoring fans, Dell set up a Web site (http://www.dell4me.com/dude) and even offered a line of "Dell Dude" apparel.
If Steven is on the way out, nobody seems to have told "DellDudeSteven," an automated chat program set up by Dell to run on America Online's Instant Messenger.
When asked on Monday, "Dude, I heard you're getting fired!" the program responded, "I haven't."
'Dell Dude'
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Supermodel Loses Tabloid Court Fight
Naomi Campbell
British supermodel Naomi Campbell faced a legal bill of hundreds of thousands of dollars on Monday after a tabloid newspaper which had revealed her struggle against drugs won a court appeal.
Campbell had been awarded $5,450 -- and hundreds of thousands in court costs -- in a judgment against the Daily Mirror in March for breaching her privacy by reporting
correctly that she had visited a drugs clinic.
But a three-judge appeals court panel overturned that decision on Monday, saying the newspaper's reporting was "justifiable in the public interest."
The new ruling means Campbell will have to pay the court costs of the trial, which Mirror editor Piers Morgan put at $1.1 million.
Naomi Campbell
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'Triumph Of Good Over Evil'
Durga
Sudarshan Patnaik, a sand artist, creates a sculpture of the Hindu Goddess Durga in Puri, in the eastern state of Orissa, October 6, 2002. The annual Durga Puja festival, which starts on October 12, is one of the most popular festivals for Hindus. In Hindu mythology,
Durga symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil.
Photo by Sanjib Mukherjee
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CBS Unveils New Hosts
The All New 'Early Show'
Six months after television veteran Bryant Gumbel quit as co-host of the "Early Show," CBS News on Monday unveiled a new anchor team, led by veteran broadcaster Harry Smith, for the
struggling, third-place morning program.
Smith, 51, who co-anchored "Early Show" forerunner "CBS This Morning" for nine years and currently hosts "Biography" on the A&E cable channel, will be joined by Hannah Storm from NBC
Sports, current "Early Show" news reader Julie Chen and Rene Syler, a local news anchor in Dallas.
The new ensemble, a departure from the two-person anchor team that has become the standard format on the morning news circuit, will debut in two weeks, CBS News said.
Smith, who will remain as host of "Biography" when he assumes full-time duties at the "Early Show," had recently emerged as a leading candidate to replace Gumbel. He and Storm
were both among a parade of guest co-hosts with Clayson after Gumbel left the show.
Smith worked for 13 years as an anchor, correspondent and featured contributor for various CBS News broadcasts, including a string as co-anchor of "CBS This Morning" from 1987 to 1996.
The All New 'Early Show'
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Hometown Plans Music Display
Perry Como
In an attempt to boost tourism, Perry Como's hometown will pipe in the crooner's music near his life-size statue in the center of town and play his greatest hits 12 hours a day.
The music "won't be blaring, it'll be soothing," says Mayor Tony Colaizzo.
Colaizzo envisions a place for Como's fans to have a seat, listen to the singer's mellow voice and remember the man he describes as a talented showman who never
forgot his roots in the town about 15 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
Como was born in Canonsburg and worked as a barber there until he left in the 1930s to sing with big bands. His songs became a mainstay of radio and jukeboxes in
the late 1940s, and he pioneered variety shows in the 1950s.
Perry Como
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Northern Spain
Giant Squid
Spanish specialists perform an autopsy on a giant squid at the Asturian port of Luarca in northern Spain on October 11, 2002. The deep sea creature, weighing 90 kg and measuring 11 metres long, was captured off the coast near Gijon one month ago.
Photo by Alonso Gonzalez
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New Late Show On ABC
Jimmy Kimmel
ABC's new late night comedy show - starring "Man Show" co-host Jimmy Kimmel will air live in New York, feature a band and maybe a second banana.
"It's going to look like every other #*@&ing talk show," Kimmel told The Post.
Kimmel's new show is set to debut in January, after the Super Bowl, in the timeslot that once belonged to Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect," 12:05 a.m. It will
be filmed in Los Angeles and air live on the East Coast.
The new half hour ABC show is expected to be heavy on entertainment and celeb guests - a far cry low-brow "Man Show" humor that turned Kimmel into big name in
dorm rooms and fraternity houses across the U.S.
Jimmy Kimmel
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The San Diego Freeway
San Fernando Valley
A heavy flow of rush hour traffic heads into the San Fernando Valley along the San Diego (405) Freeway, Wednesday night, Oct. 2, 2002, in Los Angeles. The continually evolving area, attached to the northern end of Los Angeles for
more than two centuries, will possibly transform once again, when voters throughout Los Angeles cast their votes Nov. 5 on secession measures involving the Valley and Hollywood.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
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