Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 30 October, 2001

(BartCop Entertainment)

Tuesday

30 October, 2001

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Last Night On Letterman

Bono

Bono On Dave

Show host David Letterman listens as U2's Bono, left, talks about his performance at Madison Square Garden during his appearance on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, Monday, Oct. 28, 2001, in New York.
Photo by CBS, John Filo (AP)

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Who's Going To Hell This Week

Helen A. Handbasket


Who's Going to Hell This Week?


by Helen A. Handbasket

Helen A. Handbasket

You never know who's going to trade their soul away or what they're going to get for it unless you're Helen A. Handbasket, ex-executive chief in charge of operations for the burning flames of hellfire. Who are her sources? Wouldn't you like to know? Sorry, all communications are confidential and the property of Helen A. Handbasket, whose opinions do not necessarily reflect those of this or any other publication.
 
 

WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?

bloodbar

October 29, 2001

 
Here's a fun game to play. Turn on your television and Satan will send you one dollar for every second that goes by without mention of the word anthrax. All part of the Lord of Evil's plan to demonize all white powders. Talcum's next. Satan likes people to sweat.
- Helen -


10. One good thing about terrorism? Rosie O'Donnell canceled her show for a week after the NBC building was hit with the letter full of lethal bacteria.
 
9. But Christy Turlington postponed her wedding to Ed Burns because of Sept. 11. Damn you, Osama bin Laden. 
 
8. Drew Barrymore and Heather Graham canceled trips to New York. Aww, what's the matter babes? Don't like a little danger? Join the WACS.
 
7. When World War II started, Elvis Presley, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda joined the armed forces. So why haven't the members of 'N' Synch and The Backstreet Boys, or a single member of the casts of "American Pie" or "Friends" signed up? Sorry, their contracts with Satan forbid it.
 
6. Porn star Jenna Jameson, cover girl of the December issue of High Times, admits there's a connection between pot and porn. Classified information, Jenna. Don't you know when to keep your mouth shut?
 
5.  Speaking of cover girls, what is Anne Heche, recently married and pregnant, doing on the cover of The Advocate? Is she straight? Is she gay? Is she bi? All the same when you're roasting over an open spit.
 
4. Courtney Love was offered $8 million to play Janis Joplin but Satan wasn't offered anything to play Jack the Ripper. Someone's got to fry.
 
3. Tom Cruise, Jodie Foster, Tom Hanks and Arnold Schwarzenegger are returning all their fan mail, sending all that anthrax back through the postal system. Bad move, guys. Satan loves yuh.
 
2. Why is Tony Blair sending Prince Charles to Saudi Arabia? How else could they get Bill Gates to appear on the 200th anniversary show of "Frazier?"
 
And the number one people going to hell this week?
 
1. Britney and Pepsi. Christine and Coke. I just can't decide. What the hell, let 'em both burn.
 
Personal to Ronald Reagan: Remember the October Surprise?  
Personal to Ronald Reagan: Sorry about that. Of course you don't.
 
ARITHMETIC FROM HELL
 
The Bush Family Evil Empire plus the World Trade Center equals the world minus the World Trade Center plus war minus civil rights.
 
QUOTES FROM HELL
 
"I'm hoping my posters cause a car crash."
- Elle Ekland on her ads for the world's most expensive perfume. 
 
"It's like kissing the Berlin Wall."
- Helena Bonham Carter on having to shoot a love scene with Woody Allen.
 
"If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head."
— Jim Hightower -
 
"Israel is pulling out of Bethlehem. Why are they having such problems with premature withdrawal? The Catholics have been doing it for years."
- Hiram Exican -
 
WEBSITES FROM HELL
 
http://members.sigecom.net/theclan/Taliban.html
http://www.copvcia.com/stories/sept_2001/bushbin.html
http://www.thenewspapertoday.com/world/inside.phtml?NEWS_ID=31211
http://www.presidentmoron.com/
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2839operation_northwds.html
http://www.morphmaster.com/binladen.htm
http://www.bartcop.com/1026tony.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,579401,00.html
http://website.lineone.net/~jon.simmons/roy/010929ij.htm
 
 
DOUBLE BILL OF THE WEEK
 
Riding in Cars with Boys - From Hell
 
JOKE OF THE WEEK FROM HELL

An American Marine in Afghanistan was disappointed because he hadn't had a chance to shoot at the enemy. He hadn't even seen on of them."Okay," his commanding officer said, "go up on top of the next hill and yell 'To hell with bin Laden!' Believe me, that'll get them out of hiding fast."So the Marine went up to the top of the hill and yelled "To hell with bin Laden!"An Afghani came out of a cave and yelled "To hell with Bush!""Just my luck," said the Marine. "I can't shoot a fellow Democrat."

SPAM FROM HELL

Information is NOT the only thing that travels through the Internet. So does your Aura! www.PsychicReal m.com has learned to tap your life energy and guide you through life: and POST SEPTEMBER 11: ATTENTION BECOME A TRAUMA COACH

Erickson College Coaches and Trainers are facilitating small to medium sized "Leadership Days" for a variety of companies in various cities throughout North America.  We are also currently teaching a four-day course November 15, 16, 17, and 18, called: Coaching Trauma; Coaching Team for ICF member coaches and other respected coaches who may be interested in joining a core group of trauma coaching facilitators, or who may wish to begin Trauma Coaching on your own.

QUIZ FROM HELL

What is causing this pain in my buttocks?
 
a) a pitchfork
b) a pitchfork
c) a pitchfork
d) a pitchfork
 
TV THEME FROM HELL
 
"Suicide is Painless"
 
BABY FOOD FROM HELL

muy caliente

WHAT?

 
You missed some of Helen's Columns?
 
Read them all at http://sites.netscape.net/gossipfromhell/
 


Many thanks to Michael Dare

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Entertainment News

Alex's Entertainment Report

Alex

Hollywood siren Uma Thurman is suing TV mafia boss Tony Soprano - for $260,000. Actor James Gandolfini, who plays the Mob godfather in hit American drama The Sopranos, is being taken to court by Thurman and her husband Ethan Hawke over a house deal that collapsed. The 40-year-old actor agreed to buy the A-List couple's house in New York's Greenwich Village and left a $260,000 deposit. But he then pulled out of the deal because he couldn't get permission to renovate the $3.9 million brownstone property. Gandolfini, who recently signed a $9.1 million deal to stay in the hit series, claims 31-year-old Thurman and fellow actor Hawke did not provide the paperwork he needed for planning permission. Now the couple have hit him with a lawsuit at Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming he has reneged on the house deal. A friend of both Gandolfini and the outraged pair reveals, "These three used to be friends. Now James is livid."

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This is just SICK!


Hollywood legend Larry Hagman wants his friends to eat him when he dies. The 70-year-old actor, who played oil baron J.R. Ewing in the hit soap Dallas, wants to be fed through a wood chipper, spread over a wheat field, then have a cake baked from the crop for his pals to munch on. Hagman, who lives on a 45-acre estate on a California mountain, says, "Cremation's all very well, but it uses an awful lot of energy. Burying someone in a steel casket doesn't do any good. I want to return to the earth as soon as possible."

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Keanu Reeves is helping his late fiance Jennifer Syme's mother to fight her legal battles. He has remained close to Jennifer's mom Maria ever since the young beauty was killed in a car accident earlier this year. And Reeves is now lending a hand to aid Maria in a legal argument involving her upstairs neighbour. According to court records, Maria is seeking a restraining order against a woman with whom she's been involved in screaming matches. A friend of the bereaved parent says, "Keanu has been paying Maria's legal bills. He wants to make sure that the woman who could have been his mother-in-law lives in peace. They're still very tight."

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Something to ponder…by Alex

I was watching "Toy Story" on ABC yesterday, and started thinking. In the movie, there's a boy whose name is Andy. He has a toy, a cowboy whose name is Woody. Whatever Andy tells the toy to do, it does, basically, Woody is like a puppet in Andy's hands. Then, as I was flipping through channels, I came across the "Fair and Balanced" Faux News, and they had a clip of an earlier interview with Andy Card, White House Chief of Staff. So, I started comparing. We have Andy in Toy Story, Andy in the White House. We have Woody (W) the Cowboy in Toy Story, George W. the cowboy in the White House. Andy pulls the strings and Woody says and does whatever Andy wants in Toy Story, and…..well, you can fill in the rest.

~~ Alex

Alex's Site

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night's TV

Started out with 'MNF', on ABC, then the surfing started. Ended up with 'Millionaire', and felt badly for both Bill Maher and Kathy Griffin.
Hope Robin Quivers does better...LOL.

So, did anyone else see the Jerry Seinfeld promo for Jason Alexander's 'Bob Patterson' on ABC last night? Koresh! The first thing Jerry's done in how long, and it's a promo for a show that would only appeal to George Costanza. Boo. Hiss.


Tonight, ABC reruns the opening episode of 'Alias', which at least initially aired with no commercial interruption. This time, it's plugging a 90 minute hole - expect some editing for time, too.

AMC has a trio of 'Omen' movies....Turner Classics (TCM) is offering a film that has been considered one of Steven Spielberg's weakest efforts - 'Empire of the Sun'.

Think this might be the last episode of 'Emeril' for a while, too.



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



(See below for addresses)

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Look What's 'Tainted' Now

'Seinfeld'

Sometimes, even a show about nothing can be deemed inappropriate.

Add Seinfeld reruns to the list of entertainment that's been reviewed, rescheduled or reworked in the wake of September 11. With anthrax scares shaking up mailrooms up and down the East Coast, Columbia TriStar Television has yanked an old episode of the sitcom, in which George Costanza's fiancée dies from licking tainted wedding invitations.

The episode, titled "The Invitations," first aired in May 1996 and features George doing his darndest to get his girlfriend Susan to dump him--only to have her die from licking a toxic glue that was on the seal of their cheapo wedding invites. In many Seinfeldian circles, it's regarded as one of the show's best episodes ever--or at least the most bizarre.

Suddenly, however, poisonous envelopes aren't so funny. Distributor Columbia TriStar yanked the episode before it was scheduled to air on Monday, October 22--a date dictated by the show's current syndication cycle.

A Columbia TriStar spokeswoman says there are currently no plans to re-air the repeat. But it's just one of many changes they and other companies are still making in light of the recent tragedies.

Seinfeld Episode Pulled

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As Promised

Bonus Page Link

Here are some MP3 files from BC

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Urging Testing For Postal Workers

Senator Hillary Clinton

Hillary Standing Up For Postal Workers

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging officials to take "steps at the national level" to deal with anthrax reports in all postal buildings - from Capitol Hill to local mail facilities.

Clinton urged that a town meeting bringing together postal managers, workers and medical and scientific personnel should be scheduled in New York to discuss anthrax.

"We have to do a better job of getting out the most accurate information we can at the time," said Clinton, who met Sunday with three postal union leaders. "I'm well aware that this is changing as we learn more, but we have to have a system for communicating with workers and citizens."

Union leaders repeated their demand Sunday that the Postal Service's Morgan Processing and Distribution Center in midtown Manhattan be fully tested for the presence of spores. The union has vowed to bring a lawsuit to close the facility.

Investigators determined that anthrax-laced letters addressed to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and the New York Post passed through the facility sometime last month. Anthrax bacteria were detected Thursday on four optical ZIP code sorting machines.

"I am urging the Postal Service to do everything necessary, whatever steps are required, to make sure ... that mail facilities in New York are tested and safe," Clinton said.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

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New!

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more (like 'Cranberry Autumn Tea'),
In The Kitchen With BartCop

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Public Service Announcement

Shannon Elizabeth

Shannon Elizabeth

Shannon Elizabeth is one of several celebrities who recently taped a public service announcement against hate crimes after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, in which Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network are suspected.

The co-star of ``13 Ghosts'' and the ``American Pie'' movies dropped her last name, Fadal, when she started acting. Her father is Syrian.

``I think it's important that people realize that just because - and this is one of the things I actually said in the PSA - just because we're part of the same bloodline doesn't mean we shed the same blood,'' Elizabeth said.

The 28-year-old said she's not as worried about receiving anthrax through the mail as her personal assistant, who opens her fan letters.

Shannon Elizabeth

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East Coast Talk Shows

Tough Times

Since Sept. 11, television talk shows based in New York are having a tough time filling their couches.

The starmaking machinery has been slowed by many celebrities' reluctance to travel, forcing many talk shows to cope with last-minute cancellations and invite guests who normally wouldn't get a second look.

Not that it's hurting too much: David Letterman's ratings are surging and he's drawn some of the best reviews of his career for gently guiding the nation back to comedy in a tragic and anxious time.

Two California-based TV entertainment chiefs said they're having trouble convincing stars to trek east for promotion, something the shows have noticed.

Drew Barrymore and Heather Graham both backed out of scheduled appearances on Letterman's ``Late Show.''

Barrymore was pressed into service as host of ``Saturday Night Live'' a week ahead of schedule when Ben Stiller cancelled, putting her a few floors away from the NBC News headquarters in Rockefeller Center the week an anthrax exposure was reported. She fled the building but was coaxed back for showtime.

Both Emeril Lagasse and Steve Harvey backed out of Conan O'Brien's ``Late Night'' the day anthrax was reported, leaving only musical guest Tenacious D. O'Brien hurriedly booked NBC's Dr. Bob Arnott.

``The Rosie O'Donnell Show,'' which, like ``Late Night,'' is taped in NBC's building, cancelled a full week of shows because of the anthrax scare. That prompted radio host Howard Stern to taunt O'Donnell for timidity when he appeared at the Madison Square Garden benefit concert.

Kelsey Grammer, television's Frasier Crane, came east earlier this month for appearances on O'Donnell's and O'Brien's shows and ``The Daily Show.''

With fewer stars willing to travel, shows by necessity have invited more news personalities or New York-based celebrities. Fortunately for them, that fits right into the big story of the moment.

Letterman's most memorable guests recently have been CBS News anchor Dan Rather and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He's also had Walter Cronkite, ``60 Minutes'' reporter Steve Kroft, New York Times reporter Judith Miller, city Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen and historian Stephen Ambrose as guests.

Letterman's average viewership on CBS for the five weeks after the attacks was up 37 percent, to 4.8 million, compared to the five weeks before, according to Nielsen Media Research. NBC competitor Jay Leno's ratings are up 15 percent to 6.3 million.

Rather than seeing a windfall of guests, the California-based Leno has also had some booking difficulties, a spokeswoman said.

ABC News spokesman Todd Polkes used to hear occasionally from talk shows wanting to book anchors like Peter Jennings or Diane Sawyer. Now, bookers are calling constantly - and he's placing lesser-known correspondents like John Miller and Don Dahler on the shows.

``We're booking a lot of people we wouldn't normally book,'' said Kun, citing Newsweek reporter Fareed Zakaria and former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke as examples.

New York-based celebrities - the ``Saturday Night Live'' cast, director Spike Lee, ``Ed'' star Tom Cavanaugh, for instance - have also filled the breach.

Spokeswomen from O'Donnell's show and ``Live with Regis and Kelly'' wouldn't make executives available, but insisted their shows haven't been adversely affected.

Tough Times For East Coast Talk Shows

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40th Anniversary Tour

The Rolling Stones

After months of rumor and supposition, the Rolling Stones have announced they will mount a world tour to celebrate their upcoming 40th anniversary.

So far, there are no details regarding when the trek will start and whether it will be a full-blown extravaganza or a more intimate affair.

At this point, it doesn't look like the band will be touring behind a new record, although there are tentative plans to record something after the tour, a band spokesperson said.

But while the Stones won't have a new record out this year, Jagger will release his fourth solo LP, Goddess in the Doorway, on November 20 (see).

Two days later, ABC will air the one-hour Thanksgiving special "Being Mick," featuring appearances by Bono, Pete Townshend, Wyclef Jean and Lenny Kravitz, all of whom made guest appearances on Jagger's record.

Footage for the program was shot over the past year by documentarian Kevin MacDonald, who won an Oscar for the film "One Day in September." MacDonald filmed the Stones frontman in a variety of settings including studios in London and Miami and Jagger's London home. Highlights include Jagger on the set of "Enigma," the first film he has produced on his own; relaxing on Mustique Island and on the French Riviera; and in the studio with his daughters singing background vocals. Jagger's publicist said "Being Mick" may also include a special live performance. The Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones 40th Anniversary Tour

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Where's The Big Dog?

Bill Clinton Watch

Bill Clinton In Barcelona

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton greets an unidentified tourist as he walks around central Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Oct. 29, 2001. Clinton is in Barcelona to address a meeting of business people. Others are unidentified.
Photo by EFE, Julian Martin

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New! Updated!

BartCop Astrology


Check it out at BC Astrology.

This week, the official BartCop Astrologer has provided two charts.
One who's talent (and hearing, as well), is on loan from his god, and for contrast, an American visionary, national treasure, and real-life role model, Helen Keller.

Very interesting reading!

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Comedy Central & Friar's Club Roast

Hugh Hefner

Three months ago, Comedy Central planned to broadcast a tape of Hugh Hefner's Friars Club roast on Sunday. But executives at the cable channel could never have anticipated that their special would air against the postponed Emmy Awards or a possible Game 7 of the World Series — both pushed back by the Sept. 11 attacks.

There had been a move to cancel the Oct. 2 Friars event, but Comedy Central decided to go ahead with it after an impassioned plea from comedian and Friars member Jeffrey Ross.

"I felt it was our duty as comedians to move forward," Ross told me. "Hugh Hefner is a respected symbol of free speech. He's the kind of guy terrorists hate the most."

Ross was happy the roast took place. "Comedy can sometimes feel like a silly job, like, 'What good am I doing mankind?'" he said. "But right now it seems to have a greater good."

Comedy Central & the Hefner Roast

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At The Hollywood Bowl

Courtney Love

Courtney Love finished her Hollywood Bowl performance in a bathroom after local noise ordinances cut her concert short.

The public part of the performance ended around 11 p.m. Saturday.

``Love was understandably disappointed that she was not able to complete her set, only singing two of the four new songs she planned on debuting that night,'' publicist Tas Steiner said in a statement.

So the 37-year-old singer gathered her band in a bathroom and played for the president of a major record label, Steiner said. He did not identify the executive.

The previous night, Love had returned to the stage for the first time in over three years, playing a full set at Los Angeles' Ventura Theatre.

Courtney Love Concert

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More On Mr. Modest

Will Smith

Maybe playing Muhammad Ali on film has rubbed off on him, but actor Will Smith sees himself becoming ``The Greatest'' in Hollywood, leaving stars like Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks to scrounge for movie roles he rejects.

In published remarks Monday recalling the famous brashness of the heavyweight boxing legend he portrays in the upcoming film ``Ali,'' Smith also says he could be president of the United States and takes rap artists to task for focusing too narrowly on sex, drugs and violence.

``I never had any question that I was great,'' Smith said in an interview in the December issue of Playboy magazine, which hit newsstands Monday.

``Jada (Pinkett Smith, his wife) said I was brilliantly naive, and I honestly believe that's exactly what I am. I think I could be president of the U.S. if I really wanted to.

``I know that making movies and music and entertainment is just a pit stop on the way to my true greatness.''

Smith is no less modest discussing his title role in the forthcoming movie ``Ali.''

``Ninety percent of people you ask thought this was the worst career move I ever made. To quote Ali, 'they misjudged, they miscalculated, they got it all wrong.' This is the film of the decade, period.''

Smith, who rose to fame in the television series ``The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' and starred in two of Hollywood's biggest recent blockbusters, ``Men in Black'' and ``Independence Day,'' told Playboy he wanted to become ``the most diverse actor in the history of Hollywood.

``When I look back, I don't want there to be one person who has a more colorful spectrum of films. I want to be the standard. I want Tom Cruise to take movies that I turn down. I want you to have to ask Tom Cruise: 'So, what does it feel like to have to wait until Will turns it down?'

``I want you to have to ask Tom Hanks: 'If Will turns down the next whatever, will you take it?'''

Smith, who also has had several hits on the rap charts, said most so-called gangsta' rap is too narrowly focused.

``Here's my beef -- I understand what you are saying and what you feel, but the world is bigger than what you are rapping about,'' he said. ``Just rap about more topics in your world. You mean to tell me, all day long, all you do is smoke blunts (marijuana), have sex and kill people? You never do anything else?''

The Ever-Modest Will Smith

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World's Best Band (?)

'Radiohead'

Moody rockers Radiohead were voted the world's best band at the annual Q music awards Monday.

The band - which topped both British and U.S. charts last year with its Grammy-winning album ``Kid A'' - beat REM, U2 and British bands Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and Travis to take the prize, chosen by readers of Britain's Q magazine.

Past Q awards ceremonies, held at London's expensive Park Lane hotel, have seen boisterous behavior by some attendees. But this year the present-day chart-toppers were upstaged by John Lydon - formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols - who received the ``inspiration'' award for his influence on music.

Lydon - who arrived at the hotel in a horse and cart and with his trademark shock of hair dyed orange and black - accepted his award in stalwart punk fashion.

``Who wants this?'' the 45-year-old punk pioneer asked the audience, ``because it doesn't mean anything to me.''

Radiohead Best Band Because Q Says So

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World Trade Center Memorial Service Sunday

Senator Hillary Clinton

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton comforts Maren Sarkar at a memorial service for the victims of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center at the site of the disaster in New York, October 28, 2001. A crowd of nearly 10,000 people attended the memorial service.
Photo by Mike Segar

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BartCop TV!

BC TV

Visit the site at BC TV

The 'Vidiot' never seems to rest!

Every show on TV must be listed--days worth of reading there.

For an amazing variety of information on an awesome array of tv programs check out BC TV!

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'For The Children'

Joanne & Gene

Willy Wonka

Joanne Woodward read Dr. Seuss stories and Gene Wilder recited lines from ``Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' at a celebrity fund-raiser for the families affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.

The benefit performance Sunday, ``For the Children,'' also featured Paul Newman, who is Woodward's husband, Christopher Plummer and James Naughton, all Connecticut residents. Two sold-out shows took place at the Westport Country Playhouse, where Woodward is artistic director.

The audience of mostly young children sang along as Wilder read an excerpt from ``Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.'' The Stamford resident played Willy Wonka in the 1971 movie based on Roald Dahl's book.

Newman read humorous poems and sang with the cast of Connecticut celebrities.

Proceeds from the $25-a-seat show will go to the Children's Aid Society of New York City.

Woodward & Wilder

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WB Cleaning House Already

'Elimidate Deluxe' Eliminated

``Elimidate Deluxe'' has been eliminated from the WB's primetime schedule following two low-rated outings for the dating show.

For the November sweeps, the WB will fill the show's 8:30 p.m. Thursday time slot with a repeat of rookie hit ``Reba'' and hourlong episodes of ``Popstars 2.''

``Elimidate Deluxe'' is a primetime version of syndicated show ``Elimidate,'' in which a single man or woman goes on a group date with four other people -- then picks off the suitors until only one is left.

While ``Deluxe'' didn't do well during its two Thursday outings (including an hourlong debut), the syndicated version is doing better, leading the pack among relationship game shows and showing weekly improvement.

Meanwhile, Fox has decided to give new comedy ``The Bernie Mac Show'' a two-episode premiere Wednesday, Nov. 14. The show will now bow with episodes at 8:30 p.m. and in its regular 9 p.m. slot.

Buh-Bye Elimidate Deluxe

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Fender Bender LA-Style

Gene Hackman

Actor Gene Hackman was involved in a minor traffic accident at a busy intersection on Monday that escalated into a fight between the 71-year-old Oscar winner and two much younger occupants of the car he allegedly bumped, police and witnesses said.

Police quoted witnesses as saying Hackman's car, a Volvo sedan, collided with a Volvo station wagon on a busy street just off Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood and that after both drivers pulled over, the driver of the station wagon, a man in his 30s, became angry and began verbally abusing Hackman.

The driver of the other car ``was really close to (Hackman's) face and kept stepping up on him,'' witness Nathaniel Keefer told reporters afterwards.

``There was more of that for several minutes but (Hackman) seemed to keep his cool. ... But then something was said and (Hackman) just hit him four or five times.''

After Hackman punched the driver, another occupant of the station wagon kicked the actor in the groin, wrestled him to the ground and flipped him onto his stomach, witnesses said.

Through his publicist, Dick Guttman, Hackman said he had ''no recollection'' of being kicked in the groin. Hackman recalled waiting in the right lane of a busy intersection in his Volvo when a vehicle in a left lane attempted to make a right turn in front of him, Guttman said.

``He hit the car from the back. He got out, said it was his fault. The men went to an island in front of a Virgin Records store to exchange information.''

At that point, the driver and another man who had been riding in the station wagon ``confronted him, were belligerent, and they persisted in their belligerence,'' Guttman said. ``They shoved him in the chest, they hit him, and he got in a fight with the two of them.''

A police spokesman earlier had said the men were forcibly separated by police who arrived on the scene but the Los Angeles Police Department later retracted that statement.

``The men were not fighting when police arrived,'' Lee said. No major injuries were reported and neither person filed charges, police spokesman Jason Lee said. ``They went on their way.''

Guttman said that except for a few bumps and bruises, Hackman was fine. ``His film roles to the contrary, he's not a violent person,'' Guttman added.

Having appeared in scores of films over the last four decades, Hackman, built a reputation as a versatile actor, but is best known for his Westerns and action films.

He won Academy Awards for his performances in ``The French Connection'' (1971) and ``Unforgiven'' (1992). Hackman also earned Oscar nominations for ``Bonnie and Clyde'' (1967), ``I Never Sang For My Father'' (1970) and ``Mississippi Burning'' (1988).

Gene Hackman


Just saw an ad for Gene Hackman's newest movie, "Heist", which opens in a week, or so (I guess). Danny De Vito is also in it, but what really got my attention was seeing Ricky Jay's facein the ad.

Ricky Jay is the finest (close-up) magician in the world. I was lucky enough to see him perform once, and can babble about it for hours.
You'll never trust anyone but yourself to shuffle cards.

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SAG Elections Heating Up

It's 'Rhoda' vs. 'Short Stuff'

Valerie Harper melissa gilbert masks
SAG Election
Nearly Over!




Melissa Gilbert


Valerie Harper


Melissa Gilbert gained fame playing a frontier girl in ``Little House on the Prairie.'' Valerie Harper caught the public's fancy as the wisecracking pal on ``The Mary Tyler Moore Show.''

Now the two actresses are competing for a far different role: union boss.

Observers say both politics and celebrity are factors in the election for president of the Screen Actors Guild, which represents more than 98,000 movie and television performers nationally.

Harper and Gilbert are running at a tense time, in the aftermath of a lengthy commercial actors' strike and an averted walkout by movie and TV actors under one-term SAG President William Daniels (``St. Elsewhere,'' ``Boy Meets World'').

The ballot deadline is Wednesday with results to be announced by Nov. 5, the guild said. Voters are choosing a treasurer, recording secretary and board members as well as new top leadership. Two other candidates, Angeltompkins and Eugene Boggs, also are seeking the presidency.

In this union race, fame and personality count: Candidate Web sites include glamour shots of the sort unlikely ever to make a Teamsters campaign poster.

``Because we're an actors' union, we want the name with the biggest visibility,'' said actor and attorney Eugene Feldman, an independent candidate for the board. ``Actors are as celebrity-driven and influenced as the average person.''

``Big names win,'' agreed actor-singer Steve Blackwood, a regular on the CBS daytime serial ``Days of Our Lives'' and a SAG member.

Past guild presidents include Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heston and Patty Duke.

When it comes to issues, member discord over the strike and Daniels' stewardship are the most potent elements, with the actresses and those aligned with them taking sharply opposing views of the state of the union.

Harper praises the record established by Daniels, who decided against seeking another term. Gilbert is critical of the union's direction and is calling for change.

``It's very interesting that people are talking about how terrible things are under Bill Daniels,'' Harper said. ``Bill Daniels, under his watch, has produced two of the best contracts we have had in years.''

Both the commercial and theatrical contracts were overwhelmingly approved by SAG members, Harper noted. She praised the commercial pact for blocking rollbacks sought by producers in some areas of residual payments. (Residuals are paid to actors for rebroadcasts of their work.)

In contrast, Harper said, there was disapproval of deals reached under the previous SAG president, Richard Masur, who served two terms. Daniels, promising a tougher guild, unseated Masur (``Forget Paris,'' the HBO film ``61 ``) in an extremely bitter 1999 election.

With emotions running high, shouting matches have broken out among members passing out election fliers at sites including the guild credit union in Studio City.

``A lot of people who were active in the strike are resentful of people saying the strike was not necessary,'' said Feldman. ``That's why this is so bitter. There are lots of recriminations.''

It is the guild's atmosphere as much as specific issues that drew Gilbert and others supporting her into the election, said Mike Farrell, who is running for first vice president.

``The primary thing I'm concerned about is the attitude in leadership,'' said Farrell. ``What this (Daniels) administration has specialized in is the position of 'You are with us or you are a traitor.' That word literally is used. I have found that to be both offensive and troubling.''

Farrell, who starred in the TV series ``M-A-S-H'' and is in the NBC drama ``Providence,'' was coaxed into the election by Gilbert. She was unavailable for an interview, her publicist said.

Farrell questions whether the commercial actors strike, the longest in guild history, was necessary. At the least, he said, it was painfully prolonged by guild intractability.

``If it had been handled differently, it probably would have resulted in the same gains we got without the ruinous six-month duration,'' Farrell said.

The strike against commercial producers cost actors undetermined millions of dollars and the Los Angeles area at least $125 million in lost production as it drove commercial work abroad.

Subsequent negotiations, for movie and film actors, were handled in a ``more thoughtful, professional way,'' he said, crediting SAG negotiator Brian Walton.

Harper, 61, is a four-time Emmy winner who had her own 1974-78 series, ``Rhoda,'' and whose Broadway resume includes a current role in ``The Tale of the Allergist's Wife.''

Besides ``Little House on the Prairie,'' which aired from 1974 to '83, the 37-year-old Gilbert has been featured in many TV movies, among them ``Sanctuary,'' ``Switched at Birth'' and ``Choices of the Heart,'' which co-starred running mate Farrell.

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