Who's Going To Hell This Week
Helen A. Handbasket
Did You Hear It?
Last Night On 'Dave'
Dave said "So when Ellen was leaning over Steve Martin last night (at the Emmy's), all I could
think of was that they both had sex with Anne Heche.
Just one example of why Dave's numbers are up.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night's TV
Started out with 'MNF', but, left before the game was over - Koresh, is Dennis starting
look like he borrowed Gwyneth Paltrow's body-padding from 'Shallow Hal'? Maybe it's just
menopause, and a whole lot of water-weight.
Caught most of 'King Of Queens', foolishly thinking that between regular Jerry Stiller and
Chris Elliott as a guest star, it might be funny. Instead, it was just creepy.
It's not so much that I like 'Everybody Loves Raymond', but I love Doris Roberts
and Peter Boyle --- they remind me (a lot) of my Pennsylvania-based relatives (most of whom
have surnames ending in a vowel).
Tonight, NBC gets down & dirty with a whole hour of 'Three Sisters' (quick, get
the knitting needles for my eyes), 'Frasier' & his dad get on each other's nerves (how original),
and 'Scrubs' is followed by 'The Jane Pauley Show'.
CBS has fresh episodes of 'JAG', 'The Guardian', and 'Judging Amy'.
ABC starts the evening with an hour episode of 'Spin City', followed by the
2 hour Season Premiere of 'NYPD Blue', where Sipowicz finds Ricky's body,
and gets an even younger, prettier studly partner.
On the WB, Clark's X-Ray vision starts to emerge on 'Smallville' (hmmmm-like
those 'X-Ray Glasses' in the back of old DC Comics?).
Faux begins a 2-parter on 'That 70's Show'; the Kiefer Sutherland Show, '24'
uncovers a plot (doh). And, FINALLY, the season opener of 'The Simpsons', and its
traditional Halloween episode 'Treehouse Of Terror'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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'The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe'
Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner proved the show must go on when they debuted their play in San Francisco two days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" opened Sept. 13 as planned at the Theater on the Square.
"We didn't really know what to do. But I always felt that the play is so loving and so affirming and so embracing," Tomlin said. "And people did receive it like that."
Tomlin, the actress, and Wagner, the writer, hoped that in some way, their play could help ease the country's pain and promote thought - at least in one city.
One line in the play reads: "The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible."
"It's like a child," Wagner said. "There are times to punish that child and say harsh things. And then there are times you just have to love it. Right now, I feel like we have to nurture our country and all our values, as wrong as some of them may have been."
Photo by Randi Lynn Beach
Search For Intelligence Life...
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Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton, left, talks to New York Democratic mayoral candidate Mark Green during a campaign rally at New York's Bryant Park, Monday, Nov. 5, 2001. New York City Comptroller and former mayoral candidate Alan Hevesi, far right, looks on.
Photo by Matt Moyer
New! Updated!
(6 Nov, 2001)
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, has provided another eye-opening set of charts!
A brief excerpt: " "The influence of the opposition across the 3rd/9th axis may indicate
we have more to fear from domestic terrorism than a foreign entity. Sagittarius on the cusp
of the foreign 9th house, with ruler Jupiter in Cancer, the sign most closely associated with
home and country, in the home 4th, shows the source of anthrax and other bio-chemical threats
are more likely from within our own borders; by a home grown group of domestic terrorists. The
recent wave of breast beating, chest thumping, and flag waving can be attributed to the most
excessive planet (Jupiter) transiting the most exorbitantly patriotic and jingoistic sign (Cancer).
Jupiter also has jurisdiction over religion, so the source of these dreadful bio-terrorist attacks
could very well be a group with a strongly opinionated religious axe to grind. "
Very interesting reading!
She's Grateful
Barbra Streisand
She didn't show up to collect her Emmy, but when it came time to close the award show with an emotional rendering of ``You'll Never Walk Alone,'' famously stage-shy Barbra Streisand was there.
``This is just my little way of doing something because I don't enjoy public singing,'' Streisand said afterward. ``Tonight actually had a purpose, so I was a little less afraid.''
``I'm just grateful we live in a country where we're allowed to sing and have music and express ourselves and our emotions,'' she said. ``It's a very sad time in our history, a frightening time, and I wanted to give something back to the people and our country.''
Holding her award backstage, the 59-year-old said she spends much of her time at home these days with her husband, James Brolin.
Barbra Streisand
Remember 'Temptation Island'?
Dr. Alison Dietrich
Alison Dietrich, the sexy temptress on last season's Fox reality show ``Temptation Island,''
has landed a new role: family physician.
Dr. Dietrich, 29, newly board-certified in family medicine, took a job with the Pocono
Medical Center in eastern Pennsylvania.
Dietrich, who will appear on a Fox ``Temptation Island'' reunion show on Wednesday, wants
to parlay her TV role into a career as medical commentator. She's already appeared on a
Philadelphia news station to talk about anthrax and smallpox.
``I figure now is the time to capitalize,'' said Dietrich, who posed nude in Playboy's 1995
``Women of the Ivy League'' issue.
A New Doctor In The House
New Category For The Oscars
'Best Feature Animation'
For the first time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is going to give out
a trophy for Best Feature Animation and there is a baker's dozen worth of
flicks--including Shrek and Monsters, Inc.--in the running.
Until the end of last week, however, things were looking pretty grim. The Academy requires
that a minimum of eight films need to be eligible for the Oscar to be awarded: As of
Wednesday, only seven films had been submitted for consideration, leaving the possibility
that the category would be scrapped for this year.
But the much-anticipated showdown between Disney-Pixar's just-released smash hit Monsters,
Inc. and bitter rival DreamWorks' fractured fairy tale Shrek (which joyfully mocks the
Disney canon) is closer to becoming a reality. With just hours before Thursday's 5 p.m.
deadline, six more films entered the Oscar 'toon race.
Although the Academy refuses to confirm the candidates, those films presumed to be in the
running include: Monsters, Inc.; Shrek; Paramount's Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius; Warner Bros.'
Osmosis Jones and Cats & Dogs; Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Recess: School's Out;
Sony's Final Fantasy and Trumpet of the Swan; and indie auteur Richard Linklater's Waking Life.
A special Academy committee will decide which of the 13 animated flicks meet the eligibility
requirements and the board of governors will announce the final status of the category on December 12.
To qualify, submitted films must be a minimum of 70 minutes, contain at least 75 percent
animation and utilize one of three styles: either traditional cel drawings, stop-motion
or computer-generated animation. Some category-stretching hybrid films, such as Cats & Dogs,
Osmosis Jones and Waking Life, might face tough scrutiny. (One film we know that didn't make
the cut was Blood: The Last Vampire, a Japanese animé-horror flick whose 50-minute
running time made it ineligible.)
If all goes according to Bugs and at least eight pass muster, the Academy's 40-member board
of governors will then pare the category down to a final three, which will compete in the new
category when Oscar nominations are announced on February 11.
Academy spokesman John Pavlick says the category will honor work that usually gets the short
shrift come Oscar time. "This isn't an animation award," he says. "This is a Best Picture
award that has to be animated.
Pavlick says the board hotly debated exactly how to field a category in a genre of filmmaking
that varies year to year. They finally reached an accord. If eight films are deemed eligible
for a given year, three films would be nominated for the category. If the Academy fields 15
eligible flicks, then five films would be nominated, and so on.
And, as Pavlick quickly points, the board has some "subjective authority" in determining what
films would be eligible. In other words, if eight animated features are entered in the race,
but are altogether bad movies (see: Pokémon) , the board may decide not to hold the category
that year. Although Pavlick says chances are slim that would actually happen.
If all goes according to plan, the first Animated Feature Oscar will be presented March 24 at
the 74th annual Academy Awards.
In the meantime, we'll get a possible Oscar preview this weekend when the International Animated
Film Society presents its Annie Awards for the year's best 'toons.
New Oscar Category - 'Best Feature Animation'
Updated!
BartCop TV!
Visit the site at BC TV
The 'Vidiot' never seems to rest - and doesn't let little things like laundry or
housekeeping get in the way!
Damn near every show on TV must is listed - days & days worth of great reading.
For an amazing variety of information on an awesome array of tv programs check out
BC TV!
Look Who's In FLA
Al & Tipper Gore
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper wave to supporters at a kick-off Election Day campaign rally with the voters of South Florida on Ocean Boulevard in Miami, Tuesday morning, Nov. 7, 2000. On an endless election night a year ago, America's divided voters and balky voting machines produced a deadlock over what seemed the highest stakes imaginable: the White House.
Photo by Doug Mills
New Space Film For IMAX
Tom Cruise
Hollywood star Tom Cruise will narrate Imax Corp.'s new film, shot by 25 astronauts and
cosmonauts on the International Space Station and scheduled to debut early next spring.
Other films include Disney's Jan. 1, 2002, release of ''Beauty and the Beast'' for the giant
Imax screens.
``Space Station'' was shot by specially designed 3D space cameras between December 1998 and July
2001 and takes viewers on a cinematic journey from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the
International Space Station, orbiting at 17,500 miles per hour, some 220 miles above the Earth.
Tom Cruise To Narrate New IMAX Film On Space
What, No Dr. Jekyll?
Mr. Hyde Comes To Hollywood
A key politico trying to bolster America's image overseas is appealing to the movie biz by
putting out feelers to see if Hollywood creatives would be interested in testifying at a
congressional hearing next week.
Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), chair of the House International Relations Committee, has asked the
Motion Picture Assn. of America, the lobbying group for the major studios, to speak with
various producers about making a trip to Congress. So far, though, there's no firm witness list
for the Nov. 14 hearing, congressional committee aide Sam Stratman told Daily Variety on Sunday.
Hyde, like many other policy makers, is concerned that the U.S. is lagging when it comes
to winning over the hearts and minds of citizens around the globe during the war on terrorism,
particularly in the Middle East.
At an Oct. 10 hearing on public diplomacy -- i.e., propaganda -- Hyde said the ``poisonous
image'' of America abroad must be corrected, and that it's time Washington appealed to those
in the private sector who know all about image-making and advertising.
MPAA president-CEO Jack Valenti has not talked directly to Hyde regarding the Nov. 14
hearing, but staff for the trade organization have been in contact with several producers.
Hyde's international relations committee also is asking advertising execs to come to the hearing, Stratman said.
President Bush also wants Hollywood's aid on the propaganda front, with White House
reps holding a meeting in Los Angeles last month with top entertainment execs to
discuss the war effort.
Some Call It Propaganda
New!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more (like 'Cranberry Autumn Tea'),
In The Kitchen With BartCop
Snarky Gossip
Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas, who has clinched on camera with Sean Penn, Ralph Fiennes and Kevin Kline, believes it is envy fueling such rumors as the current one - that she had off-screen chemistry with her co-stars Robert Redford ("The Horse Whisperer") and Harrison Ford ("Random Hearts"). "I'd say that's just jealousy," Thomas tells Gotham magazine. "I don't know if they're jealous of Harrison or Robert, or jealous of me for being able to snog them." "Snog" is British slang for canoodle.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Let The Wise-Cracks Begin
Internship, Anyone?
Esther Shin is a twenty-four-year-old Columbia University graduate from Port Jefferson, Long Island.
Until recently, she worked as a research assistant to a neurologist at Mount Sinai Hospital. "I
wrote my letter of resignation yesterday," she said proudly last week. She was enjoying the early
hours of her new career—that of spiting her parents, who apparently want her to be a doctor ("I'm
Asian," Esther says, by way of explanation). And so she has considered, abstractedly, making a
living as a forensic pathologist, or a large-animal veterinarian ("I could marry a ranch farmer
and take care of cows and write cowboy poetry"), or an organist ("I'd like to try my hand at music").
Or else politics. Not long ago, Esther's friend Vivian, a student at Columbia, who knew of Esther's
parent-spiting ambitions, came across an E-mail notice from the political-science department at
Columbia. Vivian forwarded it to Esther:
Bill Clinton's office, located at 55 West 125th Street, is seeking interns in its understaffed
scheduling department. Intern will answer phones, take requests, and follow through on such
requests. Also will be responsible for light computer work and keeping track of calendar.
Flexible days/hours. For consideration, please fax resume to: David Slade, Deputy Director of Scheduling.
"Vivian knows how much I like President Clinton," Esther explained. "I find him amusing. His
antics—and the fact that everyone got so worked up over them." She began to think about
applying for a stint in the Harlem office.
The E-mail also reached Lindsey Lincoln, a twenty-five-year-old senior in the political-science
department at Columbia. She faxed over her résumé. A few days later, an assistant to David Slade
called her in for an interview. She wore a suit, flats, and a gold-and-silver necklace, and felt,
as people often do at job interviews, a little overdressed.
"Security was very tight," Lindsey said. "People were dressed professionally, but it was relaxed and
comfortable." She was there for about fifteen minutes, during which she interviewed with Slade's
assistant and met three staffers. Clinton was out of town, although there were photographs of him everywhere.
"He was generally referred to as 'he,' " Lindsey said. "I was told I would be in contact with him.
In general, if he needed assistance and his assistant was busy I would be asked to do anything basic.
The guy said Mr. Clinton might need help in his kitchen, and I would do that. Filing, copying, helping
to set up cameras if he was doing an interview. Mainly fielding phone calls in the scheduling office.
He also said that sometimes people will call with ridiculous requests to see Mr. Clinton or invite him
to something. Then someone serious will call. You need to know the difference, yet respond equally."
A few days later, Lindsey was offered the job—no pay, about fifteen hours a week. She weighed the
pros and cons. On the one hand, it was a great résumé- builder and a wonderful opportunity for
someone who had, as she did, foreign- policy aspirations. On the other hand, her schedule was busy:
she had a job already, at a nonprofit group devoted to sending medical supplies to Cuba, and she
was applying to graduate school. What's more, the Clinton internship was, as she put it, "a little
basic," her résumé being deeper, in her estimation, than most of the others must have been. Before
enrolling at Columbia, she had managed a restaurant in Lenox, Massachusetts, and pursued a
career as a glassblower.
After some deliberation, Lindsey decided to turn the job down. "I just didn't have the time," she said.
Esther, in the end, did not even apply for the internship. She said that in the days after she
learned about it her opinion of Clinton had undergone a change. She had been listening to Howard
Stern on the radio, and heard Stern deride Clinton for ignoring him backstage at a recent benefit
concert at Madison Square Garden for the victims of the World Trade Center attack. Stern was attired
in a variation on his Fartman suit. "Bill blew him off," Esther said. Now she was thinking of
applying for an internship on the Howard Stern show instead.
The job in Bill Clinton's Harlem office is still open.
Still Open Internship
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Still Really Like This One....
"Boondocks" (9 Oct 01)
Gonna let it ride for awhile.
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
