Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 11 November, 2003
Tuesday
Veterans Day
11 November, 2003
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #79
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
Yes, it's SPOT THE TRUTH Day!
See if you can SPOT THE TRUTH in this week's issue of...
Issue #79
is brought to you by
Final proof Bush is a Nazi
Still not convinced? Read this.
The Worst Commercial on Television
A baby is wandering alone by a pool with a float toy. The toy falls in the pool and we realize the baby is going to try to retrieve it. The narrator says "Just tell her parents you weren't watching her because you were getting high. They'll understand." And a title comes on sending us to a website where you can delve into even more anti-drug propaganda.
What could be wrong with an ad that's trying to protect babies from falling in swimming pools? Plenty. The problem is that "getting high" can be easily and logically replaced with absolutely anything. "Just tell her parents you weren't watching her because you were making lasagna." "Just tell her parents you weren't watching her because you were having sex." "Just tell her parents you weren't watching her because you were too busy writing a TV commercial for the government's morally bankrupt war on drugs."
What makes the ad particularly despicable is it seems more concerned about drug use than the fate of the baby. Once the ad delivers it's anti-drug message, it doesn't give a fuck if the baby falls in the pool. Hey, wouldn't it would be cool if the baby DID fall in the pool and die? THAT would teach them a lesson. Don't do drugs. The baby can go ahead and fall in the pool as long as the excuse isn't that the babysitter was getting high.
I don't know the actual statistics, and I don't have the stomach to do the dead baby research necessary to find out, but considering how many dead babies are found every year baking in cars, I can't help but imagine that the primary excuse for abandoning babies is shopping. Where are the anti-shopping ads?
It could have had a point and a damn important one; watching the baby trumps everything. If you've got a choice between taking that important call you've been waiting for all day or watching the baby, you've got to watch the baby. If you're just about to come but the baby's drowning, sorry chum, the baby comes first. That's what makes parenthood such a humbling experience. A human life is entirely dependent upon YOU, and no matter what, the baby comes first.
There are exceptions. One of the standard questions asked in parenting classes is "If you're in a plane with your baby and there's a loss of cabin pressure and the oxygen masks fall down, who do you put the mask on first, yourself or the baby?" All the parents try to show how self-sacrificing they've become by loudly proclaiming "the baby" but it's the wrong answer. If you pass out from lack of oxygen while holding the mask to the baby's face, you're both dead. Since the baby's survival is entirely dependent upon YOUR survival and YOUR ability to hold the mask to its face, you've got to guarantee your own survival first, THEN hold the mask to the baby.
If you want to kill your neighbor, you've got to be proactive. Sitting around doing nothing is not going to do the trick. You've got to actually DO something: hide on the roof and drop a brick on their head or fix them a cappacino with arsonic.
But if you want to kill your baby, you don't have to do a thing. Sitting around doing nothing is PRECISELY what will do the trick. Since a baby is dependent upon you for absolutely everything necessary for its continued existence, you've got to ACTIVELY keep it alive, every moment of every day, without rest. Everything else comes second, including making lasagna, getting laid, and yeah, getting high.
It's an easy fix. Keep the same graphic but change the voiceover to "Oh, man, I gotta take a dump. I'm sure the baby will be okay. I'll try to make it fast. Unh. Unhhh. Unnggngngnhhh. Ow, wow, man, it won't come out. What am I going to do now, man? Unnngggh. There we go. Wheew, that was a hard one. Don't tell me there's no toilet paper. Shit, man, where's the toilet paper? I ain't never again takin' no dump at this place when I'm babysitting again, I tell you that."
TITLE: This ad brought to you by the citizen's committee against taking a dump when you should be watching the baby.
Fight the new world order. Stop asshole CEOs from moving their factories out of the country. Stop Walmart. Shop at an online site where every product is made in the USA.
Buy American. But don't try finding a pair of athletic shoes. Not one. Nope. Not one. Remember this, and it's an important thing to keep in mind. The corporations don't manufacture overseas because the product is BETTER, they manufacture overseas because the product is CHEAPER. If the guys at the top weren't so piggy, if the goal was to feed and clothe everybody instead of just making out like a bandit, you'd have a job.
Insane E-Mail of the Week
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Good News
Isn't it great they removed the "anti-war profiteering" penalties from the $87 billion spending bill? Now we can profit from the war without worrying about getting penalized. Yay!
Either Saving Private Lynch was broadcast on NBC using a new form of technology meant to prevent taping, some extension of copyguard that messes up the picture in a brand new psychadelic way, with the screen divided into 16ths, each 16th coming in a fraction of a second behind the one beneath it, creating sort of a Predator effect, making it unwatchable and sort of making it cool because you can hear everything fine, it's just the picture that's scrambled by some brand new technical gismo the CIA has been working on for years that can actually them to foretell and download your political affiliation through your VCR, messing up the subtitles so no one in a foreign country would ever be able to read them, making Saving Private Lynch a VERY SPECIAL FILM meant only for AMERICAN eyes... or something was wrong with my VCR.
In any case, if their goal was to stop me from writing the ultimate piece on the Lynch MOW, they've succeeded, the bastards!
Calling All Investigative Journalists
Margie Schoedinger, the Texas woman who accused George W. Bush of statutory rape and forcing an abortion upon her, has been found dead. Everyone who believes it was suicide, raise your hand. According to the Houston Chronicle, "MARGIE D. SCHOEDINGER expired Monday, 9/22/03. Visitation: Friday, 9/26/03 , 7 to 9pm, McCoy & Harrison Chapel. Funeral Service: Saturday, 9/27/03, 1:30pm, McCoy & Harrison Chapel. Interment, Houston Memorial Gardens." This site, where Schoedinger's lawsuit was originally posted, now says "The requested URL was not found on this server." Luckily, I posted the whole thing here where you can read Schoedinger saying "the Defendant also informed Plaintiff that his only option to assure his never having to answer for the previous contact would be to simply see Plaintiff pressured to the point of committing suicide." Anyone wanna guess how much money will be spent by the Federal government investigating the mysterious death of Margie Schoedinger? Where's her NBC movie-of-the-week?
A Quarrel Between a Rabbi and a Priest
Rabbi Bloom and Father O'Reilly were arguing one day about religion. They went on for some time and very soon, things began to get out of hand.
Finally Rabbi Bloom said, "We must not quarrel in this way. It's not right. We are both doing God's work, you in your way and I in His."
How About the Effects of Stupidity?
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University have discovered you can reverse the effects of cocaine using your own brain.
How Come Nobody's Asked Bush...
If your wife needed a late-term abortion to save her life, how would you feel about the fact you just signed a bill that's essentially her death warrant?
Rocket Science
The Union of Concerned Scientists has
this to say about the new energy bill.
Don't Take My Word For It
"So what is it that we honor when we honor veterans? In the context of a volunteer army, do we honor the soldiers' willingess to wreak death and destruction on total strangers? Where is the honor in that? Better to honor the people who refuse to commit state sanctioned mass murder.
"You may say that the soldier never starts a war. Wars are started by politicians, the civilian leaders. Are we then to honor the blind obedience of soldiers who follow orders to make war, especially orders by people like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who have never faced the horrors of war themselves? Or do we honor the fear in soldiers who believe the war is wrong but go anyway, lest they be punished for defiance?
"You may say that the soldiers of our all-volunteer army are not all volunteers. Many of them are poor and see the military as the only hope they have for a decent career or training or money for education for a civilian career. What then do we honor . . . the poverty and discrimination that sent them to the boot camp barracks?"
"What good is a man's knowledge unless it prompts him to
Prevent the pain of others as if it were his own pain?
Any actions which a man knows would harm himself
He should not inflict on others.
The supreme principle is this: Never knowingly
Harm anyone at any time in any way."
- Tirukkural 32: 315-317 -
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
"I am of the opinion, on the whole, that the manufacturing aristocracy which is growing up under our eyes is one of the harshest that ever existed in the world; but at the same time it is one of the most confined and least dangerous. Nevertheless, the friends of democracy should keep their eyes anxiously fixed in this direction; for if ever a permanent inequality of conditions and aristocracy again penetrates into the world, it may be predicted that this is the gate by which they will enter."
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy In America, 1835 -
"Well sir, it's been five long years, but seminal Lewinskygate figure Linda Tripp - that malignant cyst in a fright wig - was finally able to collect her payoff. For helping Inquisitor General Ken Starrquemada set up his blowjob perjury trap, Dubya's Pentagon has decided to "settle" Tripp's privacy suit for $600,000.00.
"Did you hear that, tax-payer? As if Dubya's folly in Iraq wasn't hitting your wallet hard enough, along comes Linda Fucking Tripp to dip her filthy snout in the Republican deficit trough. And all because a Pentagon employee leaked to reporters that Tripp had had failed to list her criminal past on a government security form, thus making her seem dishonest, a fact made obvious by how naturally she took to the rankest forms of skullduggery.
"That a woman who violated the confidence of a friend and illegally recorded intimate conversations is now financially set for life over a legal claim that "her privacy" was violated must surely have sent the needle on the Chutzpah-detector rocking into the red."
"Iraq is the central front in the war on Terror."
"Terrorism is a technique for killing people. That doesn't tell us who the enemy is. It's as if we said that World War II was not against the Nazis but against blitzkrieg."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski: October 28 at a conference on "New American Strategies for Security and Peace" -
"In a long war, we are going to have tragic days. But they're necessary."
- tragic Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -
"Honestly, it's a little tougher than I thought it was going to be. If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. You're dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out."
- insane Trent Lott -
"Weve got a real irony here....We have politicians selling access to something we all own - our government. And then we have broadcasters selling access to something we all own - our airwaves. It's a terrible system."
- Newton Minow, Former Federal Communications Commission chairman -
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions upon the next seven generations."
- The Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy -
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
- Lenin -
Which Disinfotainment Today mug has a squirt of hazelnut?
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Thanks,
Satan
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, breezy day.
Sure wish the kittens were being a adopted faster. I'm starting to dream of a backyard full of litter & sand, with me on a cat-shit Zamboni.
The kid has the day off. May go to the shore.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS starts the night with a FRESH 'special' - 'The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back To Mayberry', followed by a FRESH
'The Guardian', then a FRESH 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Madonna and Chris Elliott.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers is Paul Bettany.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Whoopi', followed by a FRESH 'Happy Family', then a FRESH
'Good Night, Miami', followed by a FRESH 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Sen. John Kerry, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and Toby Keith.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Rosie O'Donnell, Ice-T, and the Strokes.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Michael Stipe and Taking Back Sunday.
ABC starts the evening with a FRESH '8 Simple Rules', followed by a FRESH 'I'm With Her', then a FRESH
'Jim', followed by a 'special' 90-minute 'Primetime Special Edition'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Penn & Teller, with this week's guest co-host D.L. Hughley.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH 'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a RERUN 'That 70s Show', followed by another RERUN 'That 70s Show', then a
FRESH '24' (Day 3: 3pm-4pm).
UPN has a FRESH 'One On One', followed by a FRESH 'All Of Us', then a FRESH 'Rock Me Baby', followed by a
RERUN 'Girlfriends'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (John F. Kennedy, Jr), and a 2-hour 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Longest Day', followed by the movie 'Stalag 17', then the movie 'The Bridges At Toko-Ri'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Hayes: Barbour;
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Saltash;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Chertsey;
[8pm] 'Ground Force' - Longney, Gloucestershire;
[8:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Isle of Sheppey;
[9pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Stourbridge;
[9:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Putney;
[10pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Barnstaple;
[10:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Woodford Green;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Roger Moore;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - David Hasselhoff;
[12am] 'Changing Rooms' - Stourbridge;
[12:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Putney;
[1am] 'Changing Rooms' - Barnstaple;
[1:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Woodford Green;
[2am] 'Ground Force' - Longney, Gloucestershire;
[2:30am] 'Ground Force' - Isle of Sheppey;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Roger Moore;
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - David Hasselhoff;
[4am] 'Changing Rooms' - Stourbridge;
[4:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Putney;
[5am] 'Changing Rooms' - Barnstaple;
[5:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Woodford Green; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Queer Eye', 'Reality Of Reality', 'Queer Eye', and 'West Wing'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Peter Dinklage.
History has 'The Royal Navy', 'Deep Sea Detectives', 'Tactical To Practical', and 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi is all 'X-Files' all night.
TCM spends the day celebrating
Robert Ryan (today would have been his 94th birthday), then
features Shirley MacLaine for most of the night.
[6am] 'Crossfire' (1947);
[7:30am] 'The Woman On The Beach' (1947);
[9am] 'Act Of Violence' (1949);
[10:30am] 'The Set-Up' (1949);
[12pm] 'The Secret Fury' (1950);
[1:30pm] 'The Woman On Pier 13' (1950) [AKA: I Married a Communist] ;
[3pm] 'Best Of The Badmen' (1951);
[4:30pm] 'On Dangerous Ground' (1951);
[6pm] 'Clash By Night' (1952);
[8pm] 'Terms of Endearment' (1983);
[10:30pm] 'Two For The Seesaw' (1962);
[1am] 'Two Loves' (1961);
[3am] 'Two Seconds' (1932); and
[4:30am] 'Two Against the World' (1932). (ALL TIMES EST)
Wednesday - 11/12
TCM -
[6am] 'Lady Of Burlesque' (1943);
[7:45am] 'The Adventures of Mark Twain' (1944);
[10am] 'The Horn Blows At Midnight' (1945);
[11:30am] 'They Were Expendable' (1945);
[2pm] 'Of Human Bondage' (1946);
[4pm] 'Angel And The Badman' (1947);
[6pm] 'The Lady From Shanghai' (1948);
[8pm] 'The Night Of The Hunter' (1955);
[10pm] 'Picnic' (1955);
[12am] 'Oklahoma!' (1955); and
[2:30am] 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (1965). (ALL TIMES EST)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Former US President Bill Clinton (L) talks with Song Pengfei, a 21-year-old AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) patient from north China's Shanxi Province, at Qinghua University in Beijing Monday, Nov. 10, 2003. More than 300 experts, scholars and officials from around the world Monday attended the International Seminar on AIDS and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) sponsored by the university.
Photo by Wang Chengxuan
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
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Sting, No Doubt
2003 Billboard Music Awards
Sting and No Doubt are the first performers confirmed for the 2003 Billboard Music Awards.
Set for Dec. 10 at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena, the event will be hosted by "American Idol's" Ryan Seacrest and will air live on Fox at 8 p.m. ET (tape delayed on the West Coast).
The Billboard Music Awards recognize the year's leading artists and songs as determined by Billboard's weekly charts, which are based on sales data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. Finalists for the 2003 awards will be announced in the coming weeks.
2003 Billboard Music Awards
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Calls On The British
Michael Moore
Michael Moore, author, filmmaker and satirical nemesis of George W. Bush, urged Britons to take to the streets by the tens of thousands to protest the US resident's visit to London.
In town to promote his new book "Dude, Where's My Country?" Moore quipped he was the "advance man" for next week's first-ever full-dress state visit to Britain by a US president.
"Bush has been using the British people now for the better half of a year as a cover essentially to say, 'See, it's not just us, the Brits are with us'" in Iraq, Moore told reporters at the offices of his British publisher Penguin.
"You need to expose the lie just by your presence, and by showing the American people that in fact, the British people don't support this," argued the best-selling writer, documentary maker and political activist.
For a lot more, Michael Moore
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Talk show host Jerry Springer arrives for the premiere of Jerry Springer - The Opera, at the Cambridge Theatre in central London Monday Nov. 10, 2003. The stage show is based on America's notorious talk show, The Jerry Springer show.
Photo by Tim Whitby
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Comedy Central
'Straight Plan for the Gay Man'
Cable network Comedy Central is planning to turn the make-over hit "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" upside down with a new show called "Straight Plan for the Gay Man."
Debuting in February, the new show will parody the Bravo channel's "Queer Eye" series and male stereotypes in general as a team of straight comedians -- the "Flab 4" -- teaches a succession of gay men how to pass as heterosexuals.
The make-overs include lessons in such areas as spartan home decorating, oafish manners, less-than-fashionable wardrobes, and an overdeveloped ego to mask all personal failings, production executive Lou Wallach told Reuters on Monday.
'Straight Plan for the Gay Man'8/a>
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Denies Pressure Led to Axing
Leslie Moonves
CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves said it is "an absolute lie" to allege he yielded to political or corporate pressure in yanking "The Reagans" miniseries.
"It was a moral decision, not an economic or a political one," Moonves said in an interview with Daily Variety. "And I don't know how more plainly I can state that."
The decision to pull the miniseries was his alone and was not influenced by the conservative outcry over the miniseries or pressure from Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone or president Mel Karmazin.
Pull on the old hip-waders & read the rest - Leslie Moonves
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Former U.S. Army Private Jessica Lynch (R) and Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson (L) pose for photographers with pop star Britney Spears as they arrive at the 14th Annual Glamour magazine Women of the Year awards, in New York City November 10, 2003. Lynch and Johnson, both former POWs in Iraq, were honored on behalf of all of the U.S. servicewomen. Spears was honored for her work helping underprivileged youth experience the arts.
Photo by Marion Curtis
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Daytime TV Talk Show
Tony Danza
Tony Danza, the gruff-voiced onetime boxer who became a star of TV sitcom hits such as "Taxi" and "Who's the Boss?" has a new gig -- daytime talk show host.
Walt Disney Co.'s Buena Vista Television on Monday said it was developing a new talk show aimed at female audiences watching daytime TV with Danza at the helm.
The program does not yet have an air date. Buena Vista said it will sell the show in the syndication market, which means it would be broadcast at varying times on local TV stations and cable networks that pay a licensing fee to show it.
Tony Danza
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Formerly 'The Vidiot'
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Tapped For Joke
Bush's Drinking
An executive attending a White House economic forum surprised and delighted the crowd when he poked fun at President George W. Bush's hard-partying past.
On meeting the head of a company that makes beer kegs, Bush drew laughter by quipping: "I quit drinking in '86. But I bet some of the people out here use the product. I'm not going to point out which ones."
But the trickle of laughter became a torrent when the executive, Stephen Thies shot back: "Well, we did notice a dip in demand at a point in time. Probably no relationship."
"Pretty observant fellow, aren't you?" rejoined Bush, who has often credited religious faith with his decision to stop drinking.
Bush's Drinking
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Indonesian chef Agus Roba'i makes a finishing touch on a model of a holy book of Koran made of 337 kilograms of white chocolate, at a hotel in Jakarta Monday, Nov. 10, 2003. The 1.75 meters tall and 2.5 meters wide chocolate Koran was made to mark the fasting month of Ramadan, the holliest month in Islamic calendar.
Photo by Dita Alangkara
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To Pull Ads From School Magazines
Tobacco Companies
Four top U.S. tobacco companies have agreed to pull cigarette and smokeless tobacco advertisements from news magazine editions geared at school children, U.S. attorneys general said on Monday.
They said Philip Morris USA Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company will remove ads from hundreds of thousands of school editions of U.S. News and World Report, Time and Newsweek distributed weekly to high schools and middle schools.
Newsweek alone distributes some 300,000 copies of its magazine each week to participating U.S. classrooms, according to the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly.
Tobacco Companies
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Carries on Legacy
Louise Leakey
Louise Leakey was just 6 weeks old when she joined her parents on a fossil hunt in Kenya. Three decades later, the young scientist is leading her famed paleontologist family's quest to trace human origins.
Her grandfather Louis determined the first humans came from Africa, her parents Richard and Meave filled out the picture with key fossil finds and now Louise hopes to track down Homo Sapiens' journey out of Africa and around the world.
Armed with an inborn passion for discovery and a slew of new technology, the Leakey's youngest fossil-hunter is optimistic she will add to the family legacy.
For a lot more, Louise Leakey
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In Memory
Buddy Arnold
Saxophonist Buddy Arnold, who performed with such jazz greats as Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich and Tommy Dorsey and co-founded a program to help musicians suffering from drug and alcohol abuse, died on Sunday at age 77, his publicist said.
The Bronx-born Arnold, who fought his own battle with drug addiction for years and served time in prison, died of complications from open-heart surgery, publicist Ronnie Lippin said in a statement.
Born Arnold Buddy Grishaver, he began playing the saxophone at age 9. And by the time he was 16, he was touring as a professional sideman and performing at the Apollo Theater in Harlem with bandleader George Auld. After serving in the Army during World War II, Arnold joined the band of super-drummer Buddy Rich on a West Coast tour.
Arnold earned his first recording credits in 1949 on the Mercury Records release of Gene Williams and the Junior Thornhill Band, and he toured with clarinetist Buddy DeFranco's orchestra in 1951. But he soon descended into a decades-long struggle with drug addiction.
Although he landed a recording contract with ABC Paramount in 1956 following an 18-month hospitalization, he was sentenced to prison in 1958 on an attempted burglary conviction. Pardoned two years later, he played with the Dorsey Band and toured with Stan Kenton.
He later settled in Los Angeles and recorded four albums for Capitol Records. After a brief period of sobriety he began using drugs again and in 1981 was sentenced to seven years in state prison for forging prescriptions and impersonating a doctor.
Arnold took a job in a drug treatment program after his early release from prison and went on to establish the Musician's Assistance Program with his wife, Carole Fields, in 1992. The organization, dedicated to helping needy musicians obtain treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, has served more than 1,500 individuals during the past decade.
Arnold is survived by his wife, his son Rob from a previous marriage, and a sister, Elaine Weiner.
Buddy Arnold
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In Memory
Irv Kupcinet
Irv Kupcinet, whose column has run in the Chicago Sun-Times and its predecessors for 60 years, died on Monday, the newspaper said. He was 91.
Kupcinet, who had continued his entertainment and personality-oriented column despite a series of illnesses in recent years, was taken to a hospital on Sunday suffering from breathing difficulties.
He began "Kup's Column" in 1943 for the Chicago Times and continued writing it uninterrupted after the paper combined with the Chicago Sun in 1948.
The Sun-Times said his column was at one point syndicated in more than 100 newspapers around the world, from Europe to South America.
Kupcinet's abbreviated professional football career was ended by injury after just two games and he turned to sportswriting, spicing his stories with personal items about athletes that an editor suggested he expand.
He also became the Chicago Bears' longtime radio broadcaster and hosted one of the early television talk shows, "At Random," beginning in 1959. It later became "Kup's Show" and featured local celebrities, writers and activists.
Karyn, one of his two children, was an aspiring 22-year-old actress who was murdered in Los Angeles in 1963, a crime that remains unsolved.
Irv Kupcinet
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Larry Wood, a chief designer of 'Hot Wheels' for 35 years, holds a Cadillac Escalade, Oct. 22, 2003, in Los Angeles. Thirty-five years after toy designers launched the Hot Wheels line of die-cast metal cars the appeal remains strong among boys as well as collectors, inspiring a bevy of online fan sites and sometimes fetching thousands of dollars at online auctions.
Photo by Nam Y. Huh
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