Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 22 October, 2002
Tuesday
22 October, 2002
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #25
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
"All Rights Reserved and All Wrongs Avenged"
ISSUE #25
is brought to you by
The Republicrats
BELIEVE IT OR ELSE
Best Reason to Move to New Hampshire
The concept is that if
20,000 people agree to move to the same state, one with a small population like New Hampshire or Maine or Alaska or South Dakota, they can take over that state, repeal state taxes and wasteful state government programs, end the collaboration between state and federal law enforcement officials in enforcing unconstitutional laws, repeal laws regulating drugs and guns, end asset forfeiture and abuses of eminent domain, privatize utilities, and end inefficient regulations and monopolies.
The Funniest Song Ever Recorded
John Trubee saw an ad in a paper that said "Cowrite on a 50-50 basis, earn $20,000 royalties, send your song poems to ..." some outfit in Nashville, Tennessee which promised to write music to anyone's poem. Trubee said to himself: wouldn't it be fun to send these people the most ridiculous, stupid, vile, obscene, retarded lyrics to see their response?
What was their response? They recorded it. Listen to
A Blind Man's Penis, certainly the only country western song with the line "The zebra spilled its plastinia on bemis and the gelatin fingers oozed electric marbles." You'll never stop laughing.
Contest of the Week
You can win $500 from the
Fantasy Supreme Court League. Just scroll through their list of cases currently before the Supreme Court and submit your guesses concerning how they will vote.
Parable of the Week
"The precautions taken against thieves who open trunks, search bags, or ransack tills, consist in securing with cords and fastening with bolts and locks. This is what the world calls wit. But a strong thief comes and carries off the till on his shoulders, with box and bag, and runs away with them. His only fear is that the cords and locks should not be strong enough! Therefore, does not what the world used to call wit simply amount to saving up for the strong thief? And I venture to state that nothing of that which the world calls wit is otherwise than saving up for strong thieves; and nothing of that which the world calls sage wisdom is other than hoarding up for strong thieves."
- Chuang Tzu -
So Why Aren't the Republicans Fighting Hard for Her Candidacy?
According to a
recent poll, 69% of Americans are against Hillary Clinton for President. A suspicious number if I've every heard one.
Totally Wacko Paranoid New World Order Theory of the Week
Let's say you were the Federal Government and you wanted a police state. One big hurdle would be the
Posse Comitatus Act which forbids the military from engaging in domestic law enforcement. If you wanted the public to support your circumventing this act (which the Bush administration has
openly claimed it wants to do), one way to do it would be to use
Black Ops to instigate a domestic act of terrorism, say random shootings of innocent people from an expert sharpshooter with Arab origins so that when he's caught or shot, it looks like al Qaeda. When local law enforcement asks the Federal Government for assistance in apprehending this fiend, you would offer them a spy plane which, since it doesn't touch the ground, isn't STRICTLY
a violation of the Act. Once the public accepts that they are helpless against domestic terror, accepting this small violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, you're one step closer to moving your troops anywhere you want.
Bible Site of the Week
"
The rapture is going to strike without warning," despite the fact the Bush Administration makes headlines every day. "
The rapture is going to happen suddenly," which means the same thing as "without warning." "
The rapture is going to be one of the most astonishing events to ever occur." Thank God for war, which can only prove these fanatics are right.
Conundrum of the Week
If Bush weren't president, he couldn't sign the
election reform bill, but if he had signed it before he was president, he wouldn't be president.
Proof We're Going to War in Iraq or Palm Springs
Sun Fun Products has reported an order of
153,000 4-ounce bottles of scentless SPF-15 sunscreen to be shipped to the US government's Defense Distribution Depot/San Joaquin in Tracy, CA. The order far exceeds the usual demand of 20,000 to 40,000 bottles twice a year.
Ad of the Week
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Only used 12 times
Perfect for recreational hunting
Most Blatant Lie of the Week
Q: "How much does oil have to do with the assessment of the threat from Saddam Hussein? President Bush didn't mention it."
Fleischer: "I'm not sure I follow your question ..."
Q: "Most security analysts take a look at it and say oil is a central aspect to the nation's security ... are you saying oil is not at all a factor in the president's thinking?"
Fleischer: "I think when you take a look at what the United Nations voted for, what the Congress voted for, what President Clinton signed, and what President Bush supports, that is not a factor."
Q: "So oil is not a factor?"
Fleischer: "That is not a factor...
Time Waster of the Week
Nothing more fun than building a house of cards other than
tearing it down.
Calling All Terrorists
Chicken Soup for the Iraqi Soul
The
Blair "dossier" tells us that, despite sanctions, Saddam was able to go on building weapons of mass destruction. All that nonsense about dual-use technology, the ban on children's pencils because lead could have a military use and our refusal to allow Iraq to import equipment to restore the water-treatment plants that we bombed in the Gulf War, was a sham. This terrible conclusion is the only moral one to be drawn from the 16 pages that supposedly detail the chemical, biological and nuclear horrors that the Beast of Baghdad has in store for us. The price was paid in the lives of hundreds of thousands of children.
Dear Dr. Hollywood
My name is Reggie and I reside in Houston, Texas. I have many questions about writing and I don't know where to start. I have always wanted to become a writer, but never had time to actually produce a project. I am very aspiring and I have great ideas. What I am really looking for is a professional that would take me under their wing and guide me the right way. If possible I can only hope that you can help me by giving me some idea on where I should start or maybe you know someone here in Houston that I can talk to.
Thank you kindly if you consider responding to this email.
Kind regards,
Reginald
NASA
Dear Reggie,
Thank you for braving time and space to contact me.
A beginning chef should start out by cooking himself a few meals rather than trying to open a restaurant. For a beginning writer, writing movies is the worst possible way to start, especially if your immediate goal is expressing yourself. It's easy, at least for me, to express myself through letters or journalism or short stories, but writing screenplays is like writing bills for congress. The goal of a bill is to get passed and goal of a screenplay is to cause the production of a motion picture. They're both political maneuvers that encompass dozens of skills, including, but certainly not limited to, the ability to write.
The best advice I can give you is to simply start writing a certain amount every day. 500 words is a good place to start. Don't worry about format or what your wife will think when she reads it. Think of it as Sunday driving, when you're driving not to get anywhere but just for the fun of it, to get out of the house, to see something new, to make something up that never existed before. Make it an essay, a letter to the editor, hell, an e-mail to me, just get in the habit of writing something every single day. Writing is a skill that develops with practice, one that very easily becomes an addiction as you develop your ability to express yourself.
If you're picturing movies in your head, what you're really doing is telling stories. Become a storyteller first without worrying about format, which can be the deadly enemy of creativity. If you're dead set on writing screenplays, you'll find there are dozens and dozens of rules that apply to professional screenwriting that will make you crazy.
I recommend just writing stories at first without worrying about format. Obviously you've got a gig that lends itself to the writing of science fiction. Find a way to use the knowledge you're gathering at your job, knowledge those of us who don't work at NASA can only dream about. Develop your descriptive skills without giving yourself a headache over whether you're creating a main character that will attract a bankable star, or any of the other things that screenwriters have to constantly take into account when they sit down to write. Worrying about how Hollywood will react to your writing is like worrying about how Detroit will react to your car design. Just worry about doing good work.
MD
Calling All Filmmakers
WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?
October 21, 2002
UNDO THE COUP
CARTOON FROM HELL
HISTORY LESSON FROM HELL
When Australia's first European Explorers saw a strange animal as tall as a human, leaping around like giant grasshoppers, they couldn't believe their eyes. They asked Australia's original inhabitants, the Aborigines, "What are these animals?" They replied "kangaroo," which means "I don't understand you" in the Aborigines' language. The Europeans thought they were referring to the animals which they named Kangaroos.
SLOGAN FROM HELL
The
State of Massachusetts paid an ad agency $300,000 to come up with the slogan "Massachusetts...make it yours." Satan offers $300,000 to anyone who can explain what that means.
ANALOGY FROM HELL
Senator Zell Miller co-sponsored the Iraq Resolution, explaining why Saddam Hussein must go with
this analogy about why you have to kill snakes you find around your house, but not explaining why you have to kill snakes in the middle of the desert 9,000 miles away from your house.
CANDY FROM HELL
SATAN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
To keep cauliflower white while cooking, just add a little milk to the water.
QUIZ FROM HELL
Which one of these stories is a load of shit?
C)
6 tons of fertilizer is missing from Disney World.
QUOTES FROM HELL
"The more invested we are in the picture we have of ourselves as good people, the harder it becomes to see our faults. The less we look at our faults, the more we blame others. The more we blame others, the more rage we will elicit in those we blame. The more we do this without allowing those we blame to be heard, the closer to mutual destruction we are."
-
Jennifer Van Bergen, from
Dark Forces & The Game of Mass Destruction
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"I miss the good old days of the Nixon era, when a president breaking the law was grounds for impeachment, a charge of bribery could get a vice-president a resignation/jail term, and extra-marital affairs in the govmint were winked at. It was way cheaper than the soon-to-come reagan/bush savings & loan taxpayer drain, the politically-driven umpteen $million clinton impeachment, and 30 year deficits wiped out in 8 years, only to reappear in less than a year."
- dburke11 -
"We have the same water on this planet we had at creation...it just goes around and around. There are no water 'shortages,' just logistical problems in delivery."
There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.
- Lord Palmerston, 19th century British Foreign Secretary -
"The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically-elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is."
- Dick Cheney in 1998, when he was CEO of Halliburton Oil, doing business with Iraq at the time -
"Every bureaucracy in this town [Washington] is scared to death of an investigation...Remember, no one has really been held accountable. No one has lost their job, no one has been even reprimanded, nothing has happened as a result of Sept. 11. Unless responsibility is assigned, then we can't cure the problem."
- Sen. John McCain, New York Times, Oct. 12, 2002 -
"We've been talking to the White House for months...They keep saying, `We just have this one little thing to fix.' So we fix that, and they come up with three other things. They're not really negotiating in good faith."
- Stephen Push, husband of 9/11 victim Lisa Raines, referring to the Bush administration's resistance to an independent investigation, as quoted in the New York Times, Oct. 12, 2002 -
"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
- Tacitus -
"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
- Author Unknown -
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
- George Bernard Shaw -
"Credible reports have upwards of half-million Iraqis dying from third world diseases like typhoid or dysentery over the last 11 years; because in '91 we bombed Baghdad's water purification and sewage treatment plants, covering the cradle of civilization with excrement, then embargoed chlorine for a decade (because it's used in making poison gases)."
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
- Eleanor Roosevelt -
"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
- George McGovern -
"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
- Moshe Dayan -
"We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us."
- Mark Twain -
"Check this out, it was the SECRET SERVICE that was notified!!! Does anyone have a closer link to the resident and vice resident than the SECRET SERVICE? I think not. This explains why Bush kept reading to the children in Florida for 1/2 hour after the attack. It explains why he watched the hits on TV before he began reading. It explains why he and others in elite positions were vaccinated for anthrax before there was any word of an anthrax problem. Aren't the members of the Bush cabal terrorists? I think so. Forget about Saddam, we've got bigger problems."
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Gush Shalom ad published in Ha'aretz, September 27, 2002 -
"The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper."
- Thomas Jefferson -
"Of the lessons also gained from the history of mankind is the fact that greed and arrogance, when combined, lead the oppressor to do injustice not only to others, but to himself as well; once this combination of greed and arrogance has misled him into a sense of undefeatable capability and power, as he takes the road of falsehood and aggression, committing the most heinous acts and proceeding from that sick imagination, to fall down the precipice and then into hell."
- Saddam Hussein, Aug. 8, 2002 -
DICTIONARY FROM HELL
SITES FROM HELL
The Bush/Nazi connection is explored in this fascinating site,
Heir to the Holocaust, showing how the Bush family wealth is linked to Auschwitz.
Of course the fact that North Korea has nuclear weapons is entirely
Bill Clinton's fault (not to mention Albert Einstein's).
At
Newsbull they believe that all news is local. Newsbull was designed for people to respond to media bias in their hometown newspaper. Newsbull has over 1,000 cites with more than 100 forum categories. Each city also has a local news links section.
Nobody's got more disgusting news than
BangedUp.
At
this site, you can interactively unwrap a mummy. (I'm keeping the site where you can interactively unwrap Anna Nicole Smith to myself)
All things atomic at
conelrad. Great look at the way things were in America during the cold war.
Was the bomb used in the terrorist attack in Bali a "micro-nuke?" No, according to the major media. Yeah, according to
this site, full of graphic and disturbing pictures.
Did you know the tobacco industry is spending $26 million DAILY to market cigarettes to kids?
Here's a place you can do something about it.
Cold bacon may be a lousy thing to eat but it's a great place to go for multimedia, music, and intelligent writing. (Wide Bandwidth!)
Oh, wow, they've finally gotten around to prosecuting someone for the California energy debacle, some guy in Enron's Portland office. Can you say
scapegoat? I knew you could.
Of course the real mystery of the California energy crisis is how could a $30 billion robbery take place
in broad daylight?
Don't let this happen to you.
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here.
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Thanks,
Satan
This newsletter made entirely from wind power.
Many thanks to Michael Dare!
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Reader Contribution
from that mad cat, JD
Thanks, JD
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Reader Music Suggestion
'Paul Siebel'
by Marlin S
I'd like to suggest that Paul Siebel is a great addition to any record collection.
He was part of the Village folk scene in the late 1960s and came out with
some spectacular albums that, like so many, get critical reviews and go nowhere
in sales and are forgotten except for those who actually heard them at the
time. ''Jack-Knife Gypsy'' is an album that stands out for me but I can't find
the CD anywhere. There was also a CD put out in 1995 titled simply, ''Paul
Siebel'' and has many cuts from the Jack-Knife Gypsy album. It is worth a listen.
~~ Marlin S
Thanks, Marlin! Will try to find a copy!
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Reader Contribution
from Fud
Thanks (again), Fud!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Fairly overcast day, but the sun broke through in the late afternoon. Part of the daily routine is to take Jo the remaining lizard outside (in his cage). Fresh air & a bit of sun does him good.
It's bad enough that ALL the late night shows are reruns this week (in anticipation of the November sweeps), but, tonight NBC has a rerun
'Frasier' scheduled. Might not be so bad if the show was still funny.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS starts with a fresh 'JAG', then a fresh 'The Guardian', and finally, a fresh 'Judging Amy'.
On a rerun Dave the scheduled guests are Bruce Springsteen and Mitch Hedberg.
On a rerun Craiggers the scheduled guests are Ted Danson and Jessica Biel.
NBC has a fresh 'In-Laws', then a fresh 'Just Shoot Me', followed by a rerun 'Frasier', then a fresh 'Hidden Hills', and caps with 'Dateline'.
On a rerun Jay the scheduled guests are Kate Hudson, Elon Gold, and BB Mak.
On a rerun Conan Sarah Michelle Gellar, Larry Hagman, and the Hives.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 5/30/02), the scheduled guests are Chris Kattan and Remy Zero.
ABC offers up a fresh '8 Simple Rules', then a fresh 'Jim', followed by a fresh 'Bonnie', then a fresh 'Less Than Perfect', and wraps the night with a fresh 'NYPD Blue'.
The WB has a fresh 'Gilmore Girls' and a fresh 'Smallville'.
Faux has game 3 of the World Series. Expect reruns of the 'Simpsons', 'King Of The Hill', and 'Drew Carey' to fill primetime on the left coast.
UPN has a fresh 'Buffy' and a fresh 'Haunted'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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'Sie kommen - Undressed'
Helmut Newton
Berlin-born photographer Helmut Newton points to photographers in front of a photograph by him called 'Sie kommen - Undressed' (They arrive undressed) during the opening of an exhibition called Work in the New National Gallery in Berlin, in 2000. Newton has told Germany's Stern magazine that working with beautiful women had often been boring and tiresome.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
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Freaked Out Meeting Queen Elizabeth
Ozzy Osbourne
Rock's Wild Man Ozzy Osbourne freaked out when he met Queen Elizabeth and can't remember a word she said to him.
He confessed to Britain's Radio Times: "I freaked out. I assumed I was the in-house joke. The queen spoke to me but I haven't a clue what she said. Look at photographs -- I'm in shock."
Of his nervous disposition he said: "I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when
I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear."
And the star of the expletive-filled MTV reality show about his zany family is fully aware how fleeting fame can be.
"I'm flavor of the month, hottest ticket in town, but eventually we'll be yesterday's news. Then I'll have serenity again," he said.
Ozzy Osbourne
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Wants More NC Senate Debate
Robert Redford
Robert Redford wants more debate on the issues in North Carolina's Senate race.
"What I think the people deserve and are not getting, whether it's the state of North Carolina or pretty much anywhere else in the country, we are
entitled to forthright and forthcoming information and I think we are entitled to a debate on a particular issue," Redford said in an interview with
The Asheville Citizen-Times published Sunday.
Redford was reacting to an Oct. 13 column by the newspaper urging Democratic candidate Erskine Bowles and Republican Elizabeth Dole to schedule a
face-to-face debate to discuss issues of particular interest to residents of western North Carolina's mountains.
Dole has not accepted the newspaper's invitation, but Bowles has.
Redford is in the Asheville area to shoot his latest movie, "The Clearing," in which he plays a businessman who is kidnapped.
Robert Redford
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Bomdila, India
Corn
A woman dries corn in her compound in Bomdila, in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, October 18, 2002. Corn is widely grown in the area due to the tropical environment.
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Man With An Opinion
Harvey Keitel
Don't count Harvey Keitel among the Hollywood pacifists. The former Marine wants to bring back the draft. "I don't believe we should have a volunteer armed forces. I believe
everyone should serve," Keitel told Details magazine. "I don't think we should leave it for the other guy to fight America's wars. It robs our young men of vital experience.
You cannot . . . let someone else fight your war for you. I don't see how a young man can have an identity that he can respect without being aware that it's necessary for him
to stand up and defend the liberties that he cherishes."
Harvey Keitel
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Promises Scary Halloween
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper promises to make Halloween even scarier this year.
"The whole key of our haunted house is to scare people in many different ways," said house director Steve Kopelman. "And you try to get them when they least expect it."
Alice Cooper's Nightmare: The Breakdown, which opened Oct. 2 and runs through Nov. 2, is the sequel to 2001's Alice Cooper's Nightmare, the Phoenix shock rocker's first foray into the haunted house business. Cooper
executives first came to Kopelman three years ago to create the attraction.
This year, the effects are better, Kopelman said, with lifelike props, high-tech robots and computer movement systems manned by the same company used by major theme parks.
Alice Cooper
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Producing HBO's 'Cloudsplitter'
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese will executive produce "Cloudsplitter," an HBO film about abolitionist John Brown.
"Cloudsplitter" is based on a novel by Russell Banks, author of "The Sweet Hereafter." The book is an epic retelling of Brown's crusade to end slavery, which culminated
in his attack on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, an event that helped spark the Civil War.
Martin Scorsese
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Up for Sale
'Bums-And-Tums'
Fans of British actors, singers and athletes will soon have the chance to buy castings of the stars' favorite body parts.
Actor Jude Law's "six pack" stomach has been cast and finished in gold while Jenny Frost from the band Atomic Kitten has opted to have her posterior -- including G-string -- sculpted for posterity.
The castings will be auctioned on-line by Internet company Tiscali in aid of Breast Cancer Care.
Would-be-buyers have until Oct. 24 to view the lots and put in bids via
www.tiscali.co.uk.
'Bums-And-Tums'
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For Stacy In Seattle
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton happens to love clowns, but most of the celebrities she surveyed for her new book, ''Clown Paintings'' (Powerhouse Books), are afraid of the costumed cut-ups.
Carol Burnett recalled of her first time at a circus: "[The clowns] were mean . . . One clown came toward me with a gun in his hands and aimed it right at my face.
I screamed. He shot me, and a parasol came out. People were falling down laughing. I wanted to kill him . . . [Clowns] weren't funny, they were scary. There was something
wrong with them and I was the only kid in the world on to them."
Cult movie director John Waters wrote, "Clowns are usually bleepholes. Most clowns get on my nerves. If I met someone today who told me he or she wanted to be a
clown, I'd avoid that person. Remember John Wayne Gacy?"
Robin Williams wrote a simple poem describing his feelings about the big galloots, "Big Nose. Big Feet. Broken Balloons. Birthday gone wrong."
Joan Rivers observed, "There is something terribly frightening about clowns . . . Clowns never make me laugh . . . Clowns insult our intelligence . . . 'All
the world loves a clown?' Not this chicken. Attention clowns of the world: I hope you will all see a doctor about the rosacea on your nose, and most of all,
send a couple of bucks to Pierette, who found out, sadly, the only place Pierrot was funny was in bed."
Of the many asked, only Ellen DeGeneres, Nathan Lane and Dick Van Dyke seemed to actually like clowns and their awful antics.
Diane Keaton
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ABC Big on Broadway Star
Marissa Jaret Winokur
"Hairspray" star Marissa Jaret Winokur has signed a one-year talent holding deal with Touchstone Television and ABC Television Network.
The Disney-owned studio and network will develop a project specifically for the Broadway star, and the deal will begin after Winokur's run on "Hairspray" has ended.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
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Works For Afghanistan Or Alabama?
Seoul Fashion Show
A South Korean model presents a creation by Japanese designer Kouji Toyoda in Seoul October 21, 2002. The fashion week ends on October 24.
Photo by Kim Kyung-hoon
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Journal Excerpted In 'Newsweek'
Kurt Cobain
The recently discovered journals of grunge god Kurt Cobain are a sad, rambling screed extolling drugs, damning fame and professing his love for wife Courtney Love.
The remarkable journal entries - excerpted in the current issue of Newsweek - will be published next month by Riverhead Press. While the spelling and grammar are slipshod, they provide unique insight into
an American original. In a letter to ex-gal pal Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill, written after the success of Nirvana's breakthrough album "Nevermind," Cobain confessed his drug problem.
"As you may have guessed by now I've been taking to a lot of drugs lately. It might be the time for the Betty Ford Clinic . . . to save me from abusing my anemic, rodent-like body any longer," he wrote.
"Oh Pleez [sic] GAWD I can't handle the success! And I feel so incredible guilty!" he wrote.
For a bit more - Kurt Cobain
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2 Pick-Ups, 1 Cancellation
NBC
It was two up and one down at NBC on Monday, as the network announced full-season orders for freshman dramas "Boomtown" and "American Dreams" but said a five-year veteran, "Providence," will get the chop in December.
"American Dreams," airing Sundays at 8 p.m., won the key audience of adults aged 18-49 in three of its four airings this year, and the network expects it will settle into no less than second place in the slot, on average,
going against Fox's perennial powerhouse "The Simpsons."
"Boomtown," which airs at 10 p.m. on Sunday, has consistently come in second in the hour behind ABC's "The Practice," but has been widely praised by critics.
"Providence," on the other hand, has lagged; the show seen on Fridays is down 15 percent in total viewers and 13 percent in the 18-49 demographic over the same period last season.
Despite those struggles, though, the show won its 8 p.m. hour in total viewers and was second in the 18-49 group last Friday night.
The series, which debut as a mid-season replacement in January 1999, will conclude with a two-hour series finale on Dec. 20.
NBC
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Kid Rock's Tour Bus
Busted
A man traveling aboard Kid Rock's tour bus was charged with drug possession after a concert in West Palm Beach.
Kevin Joseph McMahon, 36, who identified himself as the rap-rocker's personal assistant, was arrested and released Sunday from St. Lucie County Jail after posting $16,000 bond. Kid Rock
and members of his band weren't on the bus, police said.
McMahon and the bus driver were the only people aboard the vehicle, which was headed to Nashville. Kid Rock and his band, which opened a concert for Aerosmith on Saturday, were flying to Nashville, police said.
Authorities were tipped by a driver who said drugs were aboard the bus. The bus was stopped on Florida's Turnpike and police did a top-to-bottom search.
McMahon was carrying cocaine, and a drug-sniffing dog found a package of rolling papers, a marijuana joint and $3,717 in cash in a silver metal briefcase, according to the police report.
McMahon told police the drugs and paraphernalia were his.
Busted
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Eurochocolate 2002
Perugia
Chocolate statues, cocoa-flavored pasta, even solid chocolate "Pinocchio" noses — are some of the goodies on display at an annual, weeklong festival dedicated to the food of the gods.
An estimated 30,000 people converged on the Umbrian city of Perugia for the first weekend of the "Eurochocolate" festival, whose theme this year is chocolate and cinema.
The "Eurochocolate" festival has been held every year since 1996 in Perugia, home of Perugina, maker of Italy's famous "Baci" hazelnut and chocolate candy.
Perugina, Lindt and Valrhona were among the vendors selling their sweets during the festival, which wraps up Sunday. Others were giving away freebies: dark chocolate
shavings, breadsticks dipped in melted chocolate, and orange, white and dark chocolate disks.
In an all-chocolate beauty salon, chocolate soap, marzipan body lotion and cappucino bubble bath were on sale. Saleswomen gave free chocolate baths, chocolate tattoos and
even styled hair with chocolate paint and chocolate covered berries.
Perugia
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Reader Alert
'COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY'
from tim h
In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to
transmit the investigative report, the nation's top PBS stations will independently
broadcast COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY.
Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute
documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine
Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - mostly black - five months before
the 2000 election. While the public broadcast network chiefs refused to schedule
this important report, dozens of local stations are insisting on showing the expose
before the mid-term elections.
10/24 (9 pm) KNME --- Albuquerque - Santa Fe, NM
10/24 (10 pm) WPTD --- Dayton, OH
10/24 (10 pm) WPTO --- Cincinnati, OH
10/27 (12 pm) WGCU --- Fort Myers - Naples, FL
10/30 (9 pm) KBDI --- Denver, CO
10/31 (10 pm) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/1 (12 am) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/3 (1 pm) WLRN --- Miami, FL
11/3 (2 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/3 (5 pm) WNED --- Buffalo, NY
11/3 (10 pm) WUFM --- Missoula, MT
11/3 (10 pm) WUSM --- Butte - Bozeman, MT
11/4 (Midnight) WNET --- New York, NY
11/5 (10 pm) KCET --- Los Angeles, CA
11/6 (8 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/24 (1 am) KPBS --- San Diego, CA
For more information - www.globalvision.org/program/fla/fla.html
~~ tim h
Thanks, again, tim! This IS a big deal - I know what I'll be watching at 10 pm on Halloween!
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