Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 2 December, 2003
Tuesday
2 December, 2003
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #82
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
Issue #82
is brought to you by
the one Muppet you definitely don't want to fuck.
(If you want to fuck a Muppet, I'd recommend Elmo or Big Bird)
Overheard White House Conversation Coming Soon to the Memory Hole
"They only show him on the news."
"Nobody watches the news."
"Everybody watches Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade."
"How do we get him on that?"
"We could fill him with helium and float him down the street."
"Nah."
"How about if he visits Iraq for the first time? He could visit a hospital and show compassion for wounded soldiers."
"Nah."
"He could visit a battlefield and say a prayer for the dead."
"Nah."
"What then?"
"How about if he just lands at an airport for a photo-op and gets cheered by thousands of soldiers, then leaves."
"Are you sure they'll cheer for him?"
"What are you, a commie? Of course they'll cheer for him."
Missing Audio Segment from Dubya's Visit to Iraq
"Boo!" Sound of rifle firing. "Unngh." Plop.
One Good Thing
Great minds think alike. Those Google smackdowns I've been doing were too much work. Turns out it's much easier to just go to
Google Fight and do it all with one click.
Buchanan for President
No, not THAT Buchanan. We're talking about
John Buchanan, the journalist who broke the Bush/Nazi story for the New Hampshire Gazette. He's challenging Bush for the Republican nomination with about one billionth the campaign contributions and a lot of moxie. Step one, the New Hampshire Primary, where that other Buchanan made a good showing against that other Bush. News coverage from just about anybody would be considered a victory.
Internet Gizmos of the Week
Somebody with WAY too much time on their hands made audio files of thousands of individual words sung by thousands of famous singers, so if you just
type in your lyrics and wait a minute, and if you haven't used obscure words like transubstantiation, you will hear dozens of recognizable singers sing your lyrics back to you.
I Feel So Much Safer Now
In his first week in office, Arnold Schwarzenegger has paroled two convicted murderers, but not one of the more than 40,000 people who remain in California prisons for possession of drugs.
This Would Have Never Happened if Joan Crawford were President
December 2: Meria With John Stanton - Hitler's Ghost In the White House
December 3: Meria With Kathy Kelly, Founder of Voices in the Wilderness - SOA Protest Abuse
December 4: Meria With Danny Schechter on his latest book - Embedded, Weapons of Mass Deception
December 11: Albert Pastore - Stranger Than Fiction, True Culprits of 9/11
December 16: Robert Greenwald - Uncovered: The Truth About The War in Iraq
December 24: Catherine Austin Fitts - Where's the Money?
Contest of the Week
"As a bachelor, I get a chance to fantasize about my first lady. And you know maybe Fox will want to sponsor it as a national contest or something. But in any event I would want definitely want someone who would not just be there by my side, but be a working partner because I think we're in a day in age when partnerships are imperative to making anything happening in the world. And I certainly want a dynamic, out-spoken woman who was fearless in her desire for peace in the world and for universal single-payer health care and a full employment economy. If you are out there call me."
Here's a site that takes him at his word. You can be
Mrs. Dennis Kucinich! To enter the "Who Wants To Be First Lady Contest",
E-MAIL them your biographical information, personal statement, and a photograph.
Online Screenplay of the Week
Don't miss the hilarious Good Cop, Good Cop by Michael O'Donoghue, Ken Finkleman & Bruce Wagner.
His Satanic Majesty's Request
History Lesson from Hell
In 1980, a FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, confirmed that aspartame "might induce brain tumors." The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman
Donald Rumsfeld (currently the Secretary of Defense) vow to "call in his markers," to get it approved.
The War Against Plants
Don't Take My Word For It
"You're about to enter into a world filled with hypocrisy and doublespeak, a world in which your limo to the airport is often a half-hour late. In addition to not even being a limo at all; often times it's a Lincoln Towncar. You're about to enter a world where you ask your new assistant, Jamie, to bring you a tall, non-fat latte. And he comes back with a short soy cappuccino. Guess what, Jamie? You're fired. Not too hard to get right, my friend."
- Will Ferrell: 352nd Harvard Commencement speech, June 5, 2003 -
"Be cautious of those who confuse kindness with weakness."
- Noah ben Shea -
"You can destroy our planet, but the souls are going to keep on going, they'll keep on getting new bodies and going on to other planets. So in the end, it doesn't really matter."
- George Harrison -
"Today's radios and TVs can carry enough ultrasound messaging to be 'heard' by the human brain (though not the ear) to be effective in conveying hypnosis. This was proven by the U.S. military forces in the Gulf War."
"It is the past experience issue that is so diligently ignored by those newly awakened voices of opposition who expend needless energy debating whether explosives were placed in the towers, whether the planes were remote controlled, whether an airliner really hit the Pentagon, or whether maybe Congress will actually do something about any of it. These debates are worse than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. They are expediting the demise of people who could otherwise be constructing life rafts. The proof already exists that the government lied."
- Michael Ruppert, remarking on the use of physical and scientific evidence to unravel the lies of 9/11 -
"I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
- Woody Allen -
"Mr. President, when you talk about peace in the Middle East, you've often said that freedom is granted by the Almighty. Some people who share your beliefs don't believe that Muslims worship the same Almighty. I wonder about your views on that..."
"I do say that freedom is the Almighty's gift to every person. I also condition it by saying freedom is not America's gift to the world. It's much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same God."
"Yeah, money."
"Everything is funnier if a puppet says it."
"In reality, the Holy Land doesn't need walls, but bridges."
"A very popular error - having the courage of your convictions. Rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions."
- Friedrich Nietzsche -
"Jesus wasn't a Christian, and he never preached in a church. He was also a drinker, and liked to hang out with sinners. We think of him very highly in the Church of Stop Shopping. We put him right up there with Lenny Bruce."
"Every one who changes is often a traitor in the eyes of those who can never change."
- Amoz Oz -
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
- Samuel P. Huntington -
"The idea gleaming and dancing before ones eyes like a will-of-the-wisp at last frames itself into a plan. Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race one Empire. What a dream, but yet it is probable, it is possible...The Society should inspire and even own portions of the press, for the press rules the mind of the people."
- Cecil Rhodes: founder of the Rhodes Scholarship, 1877 -
"The first major fault that I have heard in all of the works that I have reviewed as a Judge and in works that I have purchased or have been sent to me, is: People cast their friends, partners, lovers, and creditors in these things and they can't act! Nothing will kill a piece of audio art faster than a bad actor. Even if you have a couple of good actors in there, if there's one clinker in a major role or even a minor role that has some importance to it, it's going to lower the level of the entire production and drop you right out of it."
"Make the best of this quest and don't ask why."
- Green Day -
"George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife. Cloaked in meticulously crafted language designed to deceive the public, the administration intends to eliminate the nation's most important environmental laws by the end of the year. Under the guidance of Republican pollster Frank Luntz, the Bush White House has actively hidden its anti-environmental program behind deceptive rhetoric, telegenic spokespeople, secrecy and the intimidation of scientists and bureaucrats. The Bush attack was not entirely unexpected. George W. Bush had the grimmest environmental record of any governor during his tenure in Texas. Texas became number one in air and water pollution and in the release of toxic chemicals. In his six years in Austin, he championed a short-term pollution-based prosperity, which enriched his political contributors and corporate cronies by lowering the quality of life for everyone else. Now President Bush is set to do the same to America. After three years, his policies are already bearing fruit, diminishing standards of living for millions of Americans."
"If the earth was made of gold, I guess men would die for a handful of dirt."
- Gary Cooper: Garden of Evil -
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard -
"The UK and the USA spent over $80 billion on the Iraq war. The total cost of providing adequate education to the 130 million children who are currently not in school would be just $8 billion one tenth of the cost of war. Surely the education of the worlds children is worth 10% of the cost of the Iraq war?"
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
- George Bernard Shaw -
"Those lines that I before have writ do lie."
- William Shakespeare: Sonnet 65 -
"If they should ask you why we died, tell them that our fathers lied."
- Rudyard Kipling -
"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous."
- Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf -
"The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe."
- Benito Mussolini: London Sunday Express, December 8, 1935 -
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense."
- Buddha -
Everything Else
Forget teaching your children about the great imaginary cloud being in the sky and check out
Spirituality for Kids.
Might I point out if Dr. Seuss found out they were using The Cat in the Hat to sell cleaning products on television, he'd still be dead but very angry?
Acknowledgment
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Thanks,
Satan
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Reader Link
'Marry Your Pet'
Ummm...it is what you think it is...
- Tim H
Ewwwwww - Thanks, Tim!
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He's Been Busy Again!
The Worried Shrimp
Commander Codpiece in his Bloody Bully Pulpit...
The Worried Shrimp
Have crayon, will scribble
Ideas and Critiques are welcomed
Toonreviews
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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The Wall Street Poet
'The High Cost Of Cheaper Meds'
The Bush Administration and Congress have now reformed Medicare. But did older Americans really want it reformed?
The High Cost Of Cheaper Meds
This overhaul of Medicare
That claims to cure its major bugs,
Was not what seniors really craved,
They simply wanted cheaper drugs.
The chance to choose from many plans,
Some simple, some with lots of frills,
Won't end up helping most of those
Who only asked for low-cost pills.
Just reading through this plan's fine print
Could trigger elderly conniptions,
When all old folks asked Congress for
Were subsidies for their prescriptions.
Methinks old trusty Medicare
Has grown too costly for the feds;
The elderly may soon pay dear,
For daring to want cheaper meds.
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
A bit overcast, but still pleasant.
The kid came home with only good things to say about his teacher.
The 'behind-the-Orange-Curtain' part of the family has given us notice that our annual visit is scheduled for 13 December.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'JAG', followed by the movie 'Miss Congeniality'.
On a RERUN Dave are George Clooney and Merle Haggard.
On a RERUN Craiggers are Omar Sharif, Christine Baranski, and Peter Berman.
NBC begins the night with the Series Premiere of 'Tracy Morgan', followed by another FRESH
'Tracy Morgan', then a FRESH 'Frasier', followed by a FRESH 'Happy Family', then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Schedueled on a FRESH Jay are Naomi Watts, Rep. Dick Gephardt, and Phil Collins.
Schedueled on a FRESH Conan are Al Roker, Shia LaBeouf, and Dandy Warhols.
Schedueled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Mark Ruffalo, Simeon Rice, and Rooney.
ABC starts the night with 'A Charlie Brown Christmas', followed by a FRESH, then a FRESH 'Less Than Perfect', followed by the Series Premiere of
'Line Of Fire'.
Schedueled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Trista Rehn & Ryan Sutter, Don King, and Murphy Lee, with this week's guest co-host Lenny Clarke.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a RERUN 'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a RERUN 'That 70s Show', followed by the Series Premiere 'Simple Life' (where Paris Hilton has better lighting & more clothes), then a FRESH '24'.
UPN has a RERUN 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'All Of Us', then a RERUN 'Rock Me Baby', followed by a RERUN 'Half & Half'.
A&E has 'American Justice', followed by the FRESH made-for-cable-movie 'Horatio Hornblower: Loyalty', followed by 'Horatio Hornblower: Loyalty', again (there's another FRESH 'Horatio Hornblower' tomorrow night).
AMC has 'Nicloe Kidman: An American Cinematheque Tribute', followed by the movie 'Colors', then the movie 'Joe Kidd'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - McCann;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Warrington B;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Chingford;
[8pm] 'Ground Force Goes East';
[9pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Willenhall;
[9:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;
[10pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;
[10:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Ripley Castle;
[11pm] 'Ground Force Goes East';
[12am] 'Changing Rooms' - Willenhall;
[12:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;
[1am] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;
[1:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Ripley Castle;
[2am] 'Ground Force Goes East';
[3am] 'Changing Rooms' - Willenhall;
[3:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;
[4am] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;
[4:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Ripley Castle;
[5am] 'Ground Force Goes East'; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Queer Eye', the Series Premiere of 'Celebrity Poker', 'Queer Eye', and 'Celebrity Poker', again.
Schedueled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Sen. Tom Daschle.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Deep Sea Detectives', 'Tactical To Practical', and more 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi is all 'X-Files' all night.
TCM celebrates cons, fakes, phonies & mistaken identity - gloriously (in a Hollywood-way).
[6am] 'Snowed Under' (1936);
[7:30am] 'Wallflower' (1948);
[9am] 'The Guardsman' (1931);
[10:30am] 'Maid's Night Out' (1938);
[11:45am] 'Fools For Scandal' (1938);
[1:15pm] 'You Can't Fool Your Wife' (1940);
[2:30pm] 'Two Faced Woman' (1941);
[4pm] 'Her Cardboard Lover' (1942);
[6pm] 'As You Like It' (1936);
[8pm] 'The Lady Eve' (1941);
[10pm] 'The Tender Trap' (1955);
[12am] 'It Started With A Kiss' (1959);
[2am] 'Every Girl Should Be Married' (1949);
[3:30am] 'Too Young To Kiss' (1951); and
[5am] 'Always a Bride' (1940). (ALL TIMES EST)
Wednesday - 12/03
TCM -
[6am] 'Hunt The Man Down' (1950);
[7:15am] 'The Tattooed Stranger' (1950);
[8:30am] 'A Dangerous Profession' (1950);
[10am] 'Black Hand' (1950);
[11:45am] 'Destination Murder' (1950);
[1pm] 'Hot Summer Night' (1957);
[2:30pm] 'Another Man's Poison' (1951);
[4:15pm] 'Roadblock' (1951);
[5:30pm] 'Bedevilled' (1955);
[7pm] 'Hidden Values: The Movies of the '50s' (2001);
[8pm] 'Nevada Smith' (1966);
[10:30pm] 'Baby Doll' (1956);
[12:30am] 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1951);
[3am] 'Birdman Of Alcatraz' (1962); and
[5:30am] 'MGM Parade Show #15' (1955). (ALL TIMES EST)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Sir Ian McKellen who plays the role of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movies reaches out to the crowd during the parade for the World Premiere of Return of The King, the third film in the Lord of The Rings trilogy in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, Dec. 1, 2003. More than a 100,000 thousand people lined the streets of the New Zealand capital for the parade for tonight's world premiere.
Photo by Phil Walter
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
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'Foot in Mouth' Award
Donald Rumsfeld
A comment last year by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was awarded the "Foot in Mouth" prize Monday by Britain's Plain English Campaign.
"Reports that say something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know," Rumsfeld told a news briefing.
"We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
John Lister, spokesman for the campaign, which strives to have public information delivered in clear, straightforward English, said: "We think we know what he means. But we don't know if we really know."
Donald Rumsfeld
this is supposed to be humorous, but I wonder who's laughing....
~ ducks
Thanks, Ducks!
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Manhattan Street Renamed
Joey Ramone
Joey Ramone and his bandmates helped put CBGB on the cultural map, and his friends and fans from the legendary punk rock club have now returned the favor
The Manhattan corner where the Bowery meets Second Street was renamed Joey Ramone Place on Sunday, 2 1/2 years after his death from cancer at age 49.
"Joey was a true New Yorker," said bandmate Marky Ramone. "This honor today conveys what a monolith of talent he was."
"Joey loved this neighborhood. He loved its streets," his mother, Charlotte Lesher, said.
Joey Ramone
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A performer inflates a condom using his clarinet during a march to commemorate World AIDS Day in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec.1, 2003. In Colombia, there are 40,072 reported cases of AIDS, but according to the United Nations, there could be up to 220,000 more cases that have not been reported. Of the reported cases, 7,000 people have already died and 23,000 haven't reported symptoms, according to government sources.
Photo by Fernando Vergara
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Commies On Pearl Harbor Day
Comedy Central Awards Show
The ad campaign for the first Commie Awards, to be shown 9 p.m. Dec. 7 on Comedy Central, questions whether another awards show is really necessary.
The show honors the best in comedy for 2003. In between serious awards like funniest person and funniest movie actor are categories such as "Oh, I thought you were dead" award and the funniest unintentionally funny film of the year award.
The Commie bobblehead trophy is supposed to resemble St. Genesius, the patron saint of comedians.
Andy Richter serves as the show's host, and the Commies pay tribute to Rodney Dangerfield, giving him its first-ever comedy idol award and throwing an 82nd birthday party for him.
Comedy Central wasn't quite ready to risk a live awards show, so the event was taped Nov. 22 in Los Angeles.
Comedy Central Awards Show
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Recovering
Stephen King
Stephen King remained hospitalized Monday, but his spokesman said the best-selling author's condition was improving and that he'd been taken off of oxygen in his recovery from a bout with pneumonia.
Warren Silver, King's Bangor attorney, said he expects a "long process in terms of getting him on his feet and back to what he was before this all happened."
The 56-year-old writer was diagnosed with pneumonia before a recent trip to New York City to receive the National Book Foundation's 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented Nov. 19 for lifetime achievement.
Silver has said there appears to be a connection between the pneumonia and a June 1999 accident in which King was struck by a van and nearly killed while walking near his summer home in Lovell. The writer suffered a broken leg and hip, a punctured lung, broken ribs and other injuries.
Stephen King
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Pooh Heirs Hire In Suit Against Disney
Johnny Cochran
The holders of the North American rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters have hired celebrity lawyer Johnny Cochran to represent them in their 12-year legal fight with The Walt Disney Co.
The heirs of Stephen Slesinger have alleged that Disney owes them millions of dollars because they miscalculated royalties due from the sales of Pooh dolls, books and other merchandise for years. Disney has denied the allegations.
Cochran will face Daniel Petrocelli, who represents Disney in the case.
Johnny Cochran
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Ala Edin Ayad looks at his newborn son Ala, seen in this November 25, 2003 file picture, who was born with a large birthmark across his cheek that roughly forms in Arabic letters the first name of his uncle, Ala, a wanted Hamas militant (seen in the picture at rear), killed by Israel troops eight months ago.The baby is drawing crowds by the thousands thronging to the Aida refugee camp for a glimpse of the two-week-old infant many are calling a miracle baby.
Photo by Magnus Johansson
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Cancels Vegas Shows
Celine Dion
Celine Dion has canceled her Wednesday and Thursday shows on the Las Vegas Strip to attend her father's funeral in Montreal.
Adhemar Dion died Sunday at his home, said Robert Stewart, spokesman for Caesars Palace, where Dion's show "A New Day," has played since March.
Dion performed her show Sunday night and expects to return for Friday's show, Stewart said Monday. Her normal days off are Monday and Tuesday.
Celine Dion
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Raises AIDS Awareness in India
Richard Gere
Hollywood actor Richard Gere marked World AIDS day Monday by visiting clinics in India that care for prostitutes, and launching a campaign to persuade this country's movie and sports stars to join AIDS awareness programs.
About 4 million adults in India have HIV, according to government statistics, which don't count child victims.
The actor, who funds various causes in the South Asian country through his charity Gere Foundation India Trust, has been a vocal HIV/AIDS fighter in the region for several years.
Richard Gere
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To Christen New Carnival Cruise Ship
Jessica Lynch
Former Army Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch will christen Carnival Cruise Lines' newest ship at Feb. 27 ceremonies in Jacksonville, the Miami-based line announced Monday.
Lynch will break a traditional bottle of champagne against the Carnival Miracle before it begins its three-day inaugural cruise from the Port of Jacksonville. She'll be named the ship's "godmother."
Carnival will make an undisclosed contribution to the Jessica Lynch Foundation, which helps children of soldiers who have either served in the military or been killed on duty.
Jessica Lynch
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Formerly 'The Vidiot'
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Flees Media Frenzy
Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine Jackson, who was promoting "The Battle of Hope," a world AIDS Day boxing and musical event to be held in Abuja, Nigeria in January, drew more than a dozen TV crews and photographers to the normally staid U.N. press briefing room.
Questions put to him about his younger brother were cut off by a moderator and Jackson was whisked away by his handlers after a presentation about the AIDS Day event.
Squeezing out of the briefing room door, Jackson sprinted down a corridor outside the U.N. Security Council chamber with TV crews in hot pursuit, yelling questions at his back.
Jermaine Jackson
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The Plum Beach Lighthouse is framed by the stern of the sailing ship Brandaris, Monday, Dec. 1, 2003 in North Kingstown, R.I. The lighthouse, which sits in Narragansett Bay, adjacent to the Jamestown Bridge, has just undergone an extensive restoration which included removal of over 60 tons of pigeon guano from inside the structure.
Photo by Joe Giblin
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Vows to Bring Activists
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda promised Monday to bring a small "army" of women activists to Guatemala to denounce the murders of about 700 women in the past three years in this crime-plagued Central American nation.
The 66-year-old actress was visiting Guatemala City on behalf of the nonprofit organization V-Day. The group is led by "Vagina Monologues" playwright Eve Ensler and campaigns around the world to halt violence against women.
Fonda vowed to organize an "army to stand beside Guatemalan women to say to the world what is going on here." Fonda said she would return after the U.S. presidential elections in November 2004 with a group of activists, mainly from the V-Day organization, to pressure the Guatemalan government do something about the killings.
Jane Fonda
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Fetches Stratospheric Price
Concorde Nose-Cone
A nose-cone from Concorde, the world's only supersonic airliner until it was retired in October, fetched a stratospheric $551,600 at an auction Monday -- nearly 10 times the expected price.
In frantic transatlantic bidding, the trademark droop snoot was bought by Hungarian born but U.S.-based civil engineer Ferenc Gaspar, a self-confessed Concorde fanatic who said he got a bargain.
The nose-cone was the star item among 128 lots of Concorde memorabilia ranging from a cabin trolley which went for $8,600 to the captain's seat which sold for nearly $45,000.
Concorde Nose-Cone
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Man Changes Name
Bubba Bubba Bubba
What's in a name? If you're the former Raymond Allen Gray Jr., only one word — Bubba.
The 39-year-old Springfield native legally changed his name last month to reflect his childhood nickname. His new first name? Bubba. His new middle name? Bubba. One guess what his new last name is.
For years he considered changing his name to Bubba Gray. Then a co-worker in the Illinois Secretary of State's office started calling him Bubba Bubba Bubba in jest. Later another co-worker mistakenly thought that was his real name.
Bubba's new name became official on Nov. 20 and he's already got a new driver's license and work identification card.
Bubba Bubba Bubba
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A composite picture showing a fish, at bottom, a symbol of Christianity, and a shark, at top, a symbol of Islam, seen stuck on cars on the streets of Cairo Monday Dec.1, 2003. First came the fish, imported from the United States as a symbol of Christianity and stuck on the cars of members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority. Before long, some Muslims were responding with their own bumper stickers: fish-hungry sharks.
Photo by Mahmoud Nour Eddin
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