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Eminem's New Video
'Mosh'
The Guerrilla News Network announces the online premiere of Eminem's new video, Mosh. With eight days and counting, Eminem calls for regime change in this powerful anti-war, get-out-the-vote music video.
Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba.
Sundance Channel - 1 November!
'Bush's Brain'
BUSH'S BRAIN, the acclaimed feature film documentary that introduces the country to Karl Rove, the man known as "Bush's Brain", the most powerful political figure America has never heard of, will run on cable's Sundance Channel on November 1st at 10:10pm EST. The film, directed and produced by Joseph Mealey and Michael Paradies Shoob, is based on the best-selling book BUSH'S BRAIN (Wiley, 2003) by journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater.
Karl Rove is President George W. Bush's closest adviser. He is a brilliant tactician and a ruthless political opponent who has almost single-handedly shaped the policies of our nation. The relationship between Karl Rove and resident George W. Bush is one of the most unique political marriages in history. Feared and admired by Republicans and Democrats alike, Rove has raised a new and disturbing question for Americans: 'Who really runs the country?'
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Mostly sunny, with a new storm heading this way.
Average rainfall for this time of year is .4" - total so far this year is over 4.0".
Today the kid turns 12.
Hearty Campaign 'Welcome Back'
Bill Clinton
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, just seven weeks after heart surgery, received a rousing welcome back to the campaign trail on Monday at a rally to rev up core Democratic support before next week's election.
"If this isn't good for my heart, I don't know what is," said Clinton, who underwent quadruple bypass surgery on Sept. 6, as he stood with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry before a crowd numbering in the tens of thousands.
Kerry hopes Clinton, who was introduced as "the last duly elected president of the United States," can energize stalwart Democrats, especially black voters, and help ensure a big turnout at the polls on Nov. 2.
Clinton planned to head to Florida later on Monday. Later in the week he was expected to visit Nevada and New Mexico before traveling to his home state of Arkansas on Sunday, the Kerry campaign said.
Bill Clinton
Hitting The Campaign Trail
Leonardo DiCaprio
Just days ahead of one of the tightest US presidential races ever, a Hollywood battalion led by "Titanic" icon Leonardo DiCaprio is working overtime to woo apathetic voters to the polls.
From "Basic Instinct" star Sharon Stone, to hip hop king P'Diddy, pop heartthrob Justin Timberlake to Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro, Tinseltown is using the full wattage of its star power to boost political causes.
The 29-year-old DiCaprio has corralled some of his heavyweight pals for a television campaign aimed at persuading young Americans, a crucial voting bloc in an election that looks set to go to the wire, to think about problems facing the country and to turn out at the polls.
Also taking part in the slick, largely black-and-white spots for MTV's Rock the Vote campaign are actor Samuel L. Jackson, Latin pop idol Ricky Martin, Timberlake and Del Toro.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Says Bush Exploited Sept. 11 Attacks
Jimmy Carter
Resident Bush has exploited the Sept. 11 attacks for political gain, former president Jimmy Carter said in an interview published on Monday.
Asked in an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper why U.S. polls were split over the war in Iraq, the former Democrat president said:
"I think the basic reason is that our country suffered, in 9/11, a terrible and shocking attack ... and George Bush has been adroit at exploiting that attack and he has elevated himself, in the consciousness of many Americans, to a heroic commander-in-chief, fighting a global threat against America."
The Nobel Peace Prize winner described the invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces as "unwarranted" and "a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements."
Jimmy Carter
Raise Funds For Charity
Steenburgen & Danson
Actress and Arkansas native Mary Steenburgen and her actor husband, Ted Danson, star of the Becker series, helped Heifer Project International celebrate its 60th anniversary.
The couple, who live in Little Rock, served as honorary stars of a fundraising gala Saturday sponsored by the charity. Heifer is building a new international headquarters east of downtown Little Rock, next to the Clinton Presidential Library that is nearing completion.
Heifer works in 50 countries to provide animals ranging from snails and silkworms to elephants and water buffalo. The operation's goal is to provide the livestock to needy families so they can feed and support themselves. Recipients are required to give some of the animals' offspring to neighbours to pass on the gift.
Steenburgen & Danson
Endorses Kerry for President
New Yorker
The New Yorker has made the first political endorsement in its 80-year history, backing Sen. John Kerry in next week's presidential election.
The magazine says the Bush administration's record "has been one of failure, arrogance, and - strikingly for a team that prided itself on crisp professionalism - incompetence" and that Kerry "has demonstrated steadiness and sturdiness of character" throughout his career.
The five-page editorial in the Nov. 1 issue criticizes resident Bush's tax cuts, his environmental policies, his execution of the war in Iraq and his Justice Department's record of "secrecy and arrogance."
New Yorker
62nd Birthday Bash
Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt, the US pornography magnate, is to celebrate his 62nd birthday next week with a party in his strip club in Paris, his French public relations team said.
The multi-millionaire -- who gets around in a gold-plated wheelchair since being paralysed in a 1978 shooting attack by a white supremacist angry at an interracial spread in his Hustler magazine -- turns a year older on November 1.
As well as overseeing an expanding empire of strip clubs in North America and Europe, Flynt has just brought out his third book, titled "Sex, Lies and Politics -- the Naked Truth". Inside he rages against what he sees as Bush's incompetence.
Larry Flynt
Hall of Fame
B-Movie
Zsa Zsa Gabor and Sonny Chiba reached the heights of low-budget filmmaking on Monday as they were among those selected by cinephiles around the world for the B-Movie Hall of Fame.
Chiba, the Japanese icon of martial arts flicks including "Gangster Cop" (1970) [AKA: 'Yakuza deka'] and "The Street Fighter" (1974) [AKA: 'Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken'] , and Hungarian-born glamor girl Zsa Zsa Gabor, of such campy films as "The Girl in the Kremlin" (1957) and "The Queen of Outer Space" (1958), were among 10 artists and 10 films honored.
Winning the most votes for an individual artist was actress Debbie Rochon, whose films include "Black Easter" (1994) and "Hellblock 13" (1999). Rochon hosted the 1999 inaugural B-movie film festival held each year in Syracuse, New York.
British writer and director Clive Barker, who created the long-running "Hellraiser" and "Candyman" series, received the second highest total.
Wes Craven's "The Last House on the Left" (1972), won the most votes for a movie. Others honored included "White Zombie" (1932) and "Curse of the Demon" (1957).
Other artists inducted included Larry "Buster" Crabbe, who played Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in popular serials, and directors Sam Fuller, helmsman of high-powered dramas like "The Baron of Arizona" (1950) and "Shock Corridor" (1963), and Edgar G. Ulmer, who made "The Black Cat" (1934) and "Detour" (1945).
B-Movie
French Gays Hail Their New Channel
'Pink TV'
Gays across France celebrated the launch of the country's first television channel for homosexuals on Monday, anticipating a pink mixture of fashion, travel, talk, cult movies, music and soap operas.
The launch of "Pink TV" comes as gays in France are already making headlines with a controversial push to legalize same-sex marriages and calls to enhance the fiscal rights of gay couples.
"Pink will not be a ghetto channel, but one to assert gay identity," its president, Pascal Houzelot, told Le Parisien. "We want to accompany a positive development in society but remain watchful of movements going the opposite way."
Houzelot estimated some 3.5 million people in France are gay, some seven percent of the population, and hoped to attract at least 180,000 subscribers to the private channel.
'Pink TV'
University of Texas
DeLillo Archive
The University of Texas has acquired the archive of acclaimed American novelist Don DeLillo.
The papers of DeLillo, author of 13 novels and three plays, includes some 120 boxes of notes, drafts and typescripts for his work, in addition to articles, correspondence and unpublished material dating from 1959 to 2003, officials said from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
The archive is available to researchers and the public. The Ransom Center is scheduled to host a public lecture with DeLillo in February.
DeLillo Archive
Runs for Sheriff
'Bubba the Love Sponge'
"Bubba the Love Sponge," the shock jock who lost his job when he got too dirty on the radio and was slapped down by the Federal Communications Commission, is seeking a new gig: sheriff.
Todd Clem - he had his name legally changed to Bubba the Love Sponge Clem when he became a celebrity on WXTB-FM in Tampa - is running as a Democrat for the top law enforcement job in the Gulf Coast's Pinellas County, made up of retirement communities, glorious beaches and 920,000 residents. And he seems to be serious, too, at least judging from a recent campaign stop.
The bulky 38-year-old St. Petersburg resident came across as thoughtful, articulate and direct while talking about changes needed in an agency ruled for too long by "a bunch of gray-haired old men."
'Bubba the Love Sponge'
Launch Pro-Kerry Web-Site
Bush Cousins
There goes the invitation to the Texas ranch. Seven distant relatives of resident Bush have created a Web site urging visitors: "Please, don't vote for our cousin."
The Web site was launched in late September "to help America heal from the sickness it has suffered since George Bush was appointed president in 2000."
The people behind the Web site are all grandchildren of Mary Bush House, the sister of Prescott Bush, who was the father and grandfather of the two Bush presidents. That makes them second cousins of the president.
www.bushrelativesforkerry.com
Bush Cousins
Want Homer Simpson as U.S. President
Britons
Doughnut-chomping, beer-guzzling Homer Simpson may not be the model father but he has won the hearts of British TV fans who want the nuclear power plant worker to be the next U.S. president.
Former president George Bush notoriously said American families should be "closer to the Waltons than the Simpsons" but Homer was overwhelming favorite in a Radio Times magazine poll on which U.S. TV character should take over at the White House.
Homer got 24 percent of the vote in the poll of more than 2,000 readers. Second place went to the more obvious choice of Josiah Bartlet, the president played by Martin Sheen in "The West Wing."
Pompous but eloquent radio psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane was third followed by Sergeant Bilko from "The Phil Silvers Show." Gil Grissom from "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" was fifth with 10 percent of the vote. Other favorites were Jack Bauer from "24," "The Cosby Show's" Dr. Cliff Huxtable, Phoebe Buffay from "Friends" and "The Sporanos'" Tony Soprano.
Britons
Picked Up for a Full Season
'Lost'
ABC's plane crash castaway drama "Lost" has been picked up for a full season, which means another nine episodes will be filmed in addition to the 13 already in production, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported Friday.
The series is also one of the most expensive ever filmed in Hawaii. The two-hour pilot was the most expensive in the network's history, costing as much as $14 million. Each episode costs between $3 million and $4 million.
The show is set to be filmed on Oahu through mid-January, after a holiday break.
'Lost'
Winners Announced
Polar Music Prize
Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil and German romance singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau were named the 2005 winners of the Polar Music Prize for their contributions to music.
The award was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, through a donation to The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Announcement of the winners was made Monday.
Gil, who also is Brazil's culture minister, and Fischer-Dieskau will each receive $137,043. They are expected to travel to Sweden to collect the award on May 23 from King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Polar Music Prize
Re-Enact Charge of Light Brigade
British
Britain's Prince Philip and saber-waving cavalry re-enactors commemorated the charge of the Light Brigade on Monday, 150 years after the doomed British assault against Russian cannons in a Crimean War battle immortalized by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.
The incident, known around the world through the poem's ringing beginning of "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward," was one of the grimmest offensives of the war. Of the more than 600 soldiers who charged against Russian cannon, 110 were killed. In addition, 475 horses were lost, a significant blow to the cavalry.
The plunge into what Tennyson characterized as "The Valley of Death" was due to a confused order, and the charge came to be seen, through the poem, as the epitome of courage and obedience despite mistakes of command.
British
Takes 'SNL' Lip Sync Blame
Ashlee Simpson
Ashlee Simpson is reportedly taking the heat for deciding to lip-sync during a performance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend, a plan that backfired when the vocals to the wrong song were audible during her second appearance.
At the close of the show, Simpson deflected the blame, telling the viewing audience "I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song." Geffen issued a statement blaming a computer glitch that should have played pre-recorded percussion rather than the "Pieces of You" vocals.
Simpson was reportedly singing a different tune Monday. MTV, home to her reality series "The Ashlee Simpson Show," reported on its Web site that Simpson admitted to lip syncing on the show because her voice has suffering from the stresses of a heavy promotional schedule.
Ashlee Simpson
Comic Celebrates 25 Puerile Years
Viz
After serving up 25 years of toilet gags to puerile British readers, Viz is still flying high as the world's most politically incorrect comic.
Its stable of foul-mouthed characters like Johnny Fartpants and Sid the Sexist are fiercely proud. Buster Gonad and the ever voracious Fat Slags cannot believe their luck.
Written and drawn by a trio of overgrown schoolboys who revel in the infantile British sense of humor, the comic production line shows no sign of stopping.
Viz
