Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 24 December, 2002
Tuesday
24 December, 2002
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #34
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
Hello, and welcome to a special
Christmas
Edition
of
featuring
absolutely nothing
about Christmas
ISSUE #34
is brought to you by
Three Wise Men
and, actually, quite a lot of Christmas stuff
BELIEVE IT OR ELSE
The Good News
resident Bush signed
new legislation that restricts the availability of explosives to felons.
The Bad News
It used to be legal for felons to buy explosives.
The U.N. Inspectors Can Come Home Now
According to
Iraq Daily, Sean Penn "confirmed that Iraq is completely clear of weapons of mass destruction."
You Can Thank Me Later
I'm not forwarding that Mulder/Scully satire "The X-Mas Files."
Unfortunately, that .5% Includes Mandatory Brisses for Palestinians
The United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations are "99.5 percent" agreed on a
plan for a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
No, Really, I'm Not Making This Up
Money Well Spent
Purchasers of a fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles qualify for a $4,000 tax credit. Purchasers of SUVs qualify for a
$30,000 tax credit.
A
$147,000 study at Northwestern University showed women pornography and asked what they thought of it.
I Feel So Much Safer Now
Dow Chemical used legal threats to close
Thing.Net.
It's possible Saddam didn't really kill all those
Kurds.
Civil Rights Triumph of the Week
The U.N. Inspectors are in the Wrong Country
Same Headlines, Different Links
Best Excuse for Getting Drunk and Overeating During the Holidays
"And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household."
- that wacky party guide, Deuteronomy -
Calling All Terrorists
Why the Iraqi Report to the U.N. Proves Conclusively
that Iraq Should Have the Right to Invade the U.S.
Video of the Week the You Can't See
Five years before Enron collapsed, an executive joked at a party about making "a kazillion dollars" through something he humorously dubbed "hypothetical future value accounting," and it was caught on tape at a party attended by George W. Bush.
Definition of the American Political System
Main Entry: jin·go·ism
Pronunciation: 'ji[ng]-(")gO-"i-z&m
Function: noun
Date: 1878
: extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.
What, No Barbecue?
Here are the officially submitted ideas for
rebuilding the site of the former World Trade Centers.
Insane E-Mail of the Week
Mr. President Bush,
BY WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, PROVOKING ISRAEL TO BREAK ITS COVENANT WITH I, THEIR ALMIGHTY GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB AND MOSES, AND JOINED TO AMERICA BEING THE GREATEST MURDERERS UPON THIS EARTH, MURDERING ITS OWN UNBORN BABIES THROUGH UNGODLY ABORTIONS BY THE MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS EACH YEAR, MR. pRESIDENT gEORGE bUSH, YOU HAVE SIGNED YOUR AND MOST AMERICAN'S DEATH WARRANTS, AS SHE IS JUDGED AS WRITTEN IN REVELATION 18:1 TO 24, OH BABYLON, TO BE GONE IN A DAY UNDER THE SURFACE OF THE SEA, THROWN DOWN TO THE PIT OF HELL.
You, mr. president george bush, have joined to the greatest liar, murderer and thief, satan, in his judgment of being thrown down into hell, then one day, thrown into the eternal lake of fire where all of your workers of inequity shall end up for eternal judgment as written in His Word, Revelation 20:11 to 15.
Forever and ever.
mr. president george bush,
Amos 3:7.
His Servant,
Elijah the Tishbite
Am I the Only One
...who thinks Richard Harris should keep playing Dumbledore in all the Harry Potter movies but completely computer animated?
...who is just a bit nauseated at all the spam I'm getting telling me how to get laid this Christmas?
...who thinks the government is so adamantly against medical marijuana because they know it's the first domino, that if they admit there's a legitimate use for ONE illegal drug, they'll have to admit there's a legitimate use for EVERY illegal drug?
...who is pissed off that the liberal media who picked on Trent Lott turned out to be dupes for Bush who wanted to get rid of him?
...who thinks Yasser Arafat needs to be given a massive hit of LSD, tied to a chair with his eyelids pried open, and forced to watch the movie
Gandhi over and over?
...who thinks George W. Bush needs to be given a massive hit of LSD, tied to a chair with his eyelids pried open, and forced to watch the movie Born on the Fourth of July over and over?
...who thinks every member of congress needs to be given a massive hit of LSD, tied to a chair with their eyelids pried open, and forced to watch the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington over and over?
...who thinks Rush Limbaugh needs to be given a massive hit of LSD, tied to a chair with his eyelids pried open, and forced to watch the movie Hair over and over?
...who thinks Barbra Streisand needs to be given a massive hit of LSD, tied to a chair with her eyelids pried open, and forced to watch the movie Yentl over and over?
...who thinks Roger Ebert needs to be given a massive hit of LSD, tied to a chair with his eyelids pried open, and forced to watch the movie Beyond the Valley of the Dolls over and over?
Free Novel
The time....1910
The place...Hollywood
The first audiences
The first stars
The first film deals
by Michael Dare
"Like a Doctorow novelization of a Woody Allen movie."
- Reviews for a Dime -
Dear Doc Hollywood,:.
Well I've spent the last 3 hours ringing studios, agents, operators you name it, without any luck then I've stumbled across this site and the mentor service which is a fantastic idea.
I am so green its not funny so I hope I'm not wasting your time, in short I need advice. What I was about to do today was pay for my flight to L.A, ( I live in Melbourne, Australia) and then pitch my ideas to studios, luckily I decided to call the studio first to try and secure an appointment only to find out the procedure.Phew!!!
I now understand that I need an agent which in itself is quite a challenge, before I contact potential agencies with my "letter of inquiry" I thought some industry advice may help.
In short I have a story outline, I think the term is treatment, I am not a writer, far from it as it is not my strength however I've
been working on my story, characters, plot development etc for years and believe I have some thing fantastic, relevant and fresh.
What do you suggest I do here, do I need to get a writer to develop this into a script or can I fly with my treatment( its about 15 pages)
I was also going to include things like pictured of the location, relevant history details, and a CD with relevant sounds. The story is an adventure / drama with an environmental undertone.
Any advice would be extremely appreciated and thank you for taking the time to look at my challenge
Kind regards
Lloyd
Lloyd,
Thank you for braving time and space to contact me.
You've got as much chance going to Hollywood and selling your screenplay as you have going to Houston and becoming an astronaut. Whatever gig you're going after, there are at least 1,000 others in line ahead of you, with more experience and better resumes.
It's pretty much the same thing with getting an agent. Unless an agent has a client who recommends you, they will not read you. You've only got one story outline and you want an agent? Forget it. They want writers with a dozen scripts, one in every genre, things they can pitch all over the place. They want clients who will bring them commissions on endless sales, not just one. You don't even have full script as a writing sample? You don't have a chance. Once again, there are dozens of others in line ahead of you with dozens of scripts.
Australia doesn't have a film industry? What the hell do you want to come here for? Peter Weir made The Last Wave before they gave him Witness. Once again, personal contacts are EVERYTHING. Go the to Melbourne Film Festival and meet people.
MD
Thanks MD,
Your candid approach is exactly what I needed, strangely enough I find the challenge even more appealing.
I have a few ideas on contacts and now I can formulate a game plan. One thing though, do you suggest employing a script writer at this stage to transfer my story outline into some thing more tangible and if so whom/where/how do I go about this?
Thanks again for your advice and the time to lend a hand.
Kind regards
Lloyd
Lloyd,
If you don't care if you're the one who actually writes it, then you are functioning as a producer, not a writer. Your goal is to put together a package of elements that will attract financing, a package including, but not limited to a writer, a director, actors, and guaranteed distribution. It's cart/horse time. Maybe getting a writer is the first thing to do. If so, I'm sure you can find them locally. The WGA lists hundreds of writers available for hire and I'm one of them. Maybe you want to get an actor first. There are hundreds of actors with their own production companies who might be MORE receptive to a treatment than a script because then they can hire a screenwriter to tailor a role specifically for them. Maybe you want to get a director first, one of those artsy types who writes their own films. Hell, there have been movies that got made because they found the locations first. Packaging a film is incredibly difficult which is why I'm not a producer.
Good luck with it.
MD
Calling all Screenwriters and Filmmakers
"The mediocre movie explains everything twice and always means exactly what it says. It waves its sincerity aloft like a truce flag. It leaves no questions unanswered. It tells you exactly where you should stand in relation to its characters and its subject matter. It is frequently soothing because it tells you that you are right. Then, too, it can be like an unrelenting host who holds you captive until you finish every last morsel on the plate. But it tends not to stick in the memory because there's nothing there to wonder about."
- Vincent Canby -
WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?
December 23, 2002
UNDO THE COUP
A father in Chicago was accused of sexually abusing his daughter, beginning when she was 14. A policeman testified that the man had admitted the charge, but the father denied it in court. Then the father made an admission. He admitted he fondled his daughter's breasts and buttocks, according to court documents. Judge Michael Brown ruled in the father's favor anyway, saying "There has been an admission that there has been a fondling of breasts and buttocks, which would corroborate the minor's statement; however, there has not been any testimony that the fondling was for the purpose of sexual abuse. Therefore, this court finds that the State has not met its burden of proof as far as presenting evidence that the offense of criminal sexual abuse was committed.
"As to the sexual abuse count, the court finds that because there was no evidence of sexual gratification, the State has not met its burden of proof."
RULE FROM HELL
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is refusing to allow a
Palestinian film to be considered for an Oscar because "the film does not originate from a country that is formally recognized by the UN."
HISTORY LESSON FROM HELL
It is important to note that for two centuries after Christ's birth, no one knew, and few people cared, exactly when he was born. Birthdays were unimportant; death days counted. Besides, Christ was divine and his natural birth was deliberately played down. In fact, the Church even announced at one point that it was sinful to contemplate observing Christ's birthday "as though He were a King Pharaoh.
The idea of celebrating the Nativity on December 25 was first suggested early in the fourth century CE, a clever move on the part of Church fathers who wished to eclipse the December 25 festivities of a rival pagan religion, Mithraism, which threatened the existence of Christianity.
SATAN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
INTERNET CHRISTMAS JOKE FROM HELL
Q. Why do all the "other" reindeer have brown noses?
A. Because they can't stop as quickly as Rudolph!
QUOTES FROM HELL
One of these statements was never made.
"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."
- Dick Gregory -
"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."
- Phyllis Diller -
"If we fired every single person on the state payroll - every park ranger, every college professor, and every Highway Patrol officer - we would still be more than $6 billion short."
- Herb Wesson Jr, Assembly speaker, on the slight money problem in California -
"The White House is obsessed with Saddam Hussein and there's nothing I can do."
- Colin Powell -
"The American crime was not to help the Jews, but to help them at the expense of the Arabs. Today, the Arab world fears and expects a further Israeli expansion."
- Time Magazine, 1951 -
"Hollywood should realize that, if they're truly interested in avoiding US involvement in a war in the Middle East, they should form a group called 'Actors For A Radioactive Baghdad.' Public support for an Iraq invasion would plummet. Nobody in their right mind would want to start a war if Mia Farrow and REM thought it was a good idea, right?"
- Doug Powers -
"I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it weren't the worst movie ever made."
- Xarvon on Moulin Rouge -
"For most of the Cold War, atomic bombs were commonly considered as weapons. People like myself were little understood in our arguments that such bombs were literally unspeakable; that, epistemically, they are not within the realm of speech because they are not weapons, but acts of self-annihilation. It is no longer tolerable to the common sense to think of nuclear bombs as weapons, or of pollution as the price of development. The disintegrating ozone layer and warming atmosphere are making it intolerable to think of more development and industrial growth as progress, but rather as aggression against the human condition. It is now imaginable to the common mind that, as Samuel Beckett once said, 'this earth could be uninhabited.'"
Ivan Illich, 1926-2002 "The disturbing rise of fanaticism in the Near East in recent years is a reaction to the thoughtlessness and superficiality of the West...In all this we are really touching on the great present crisis in Western culture. We are saying when that culture mends its own spiritual fences, all will be well with the Near East, and not with the Near East alone. The deep problem of the Near East must await the spiritual recovery of the West. And he does not know the truth who thinks that the West does not have in its own tradition the means and the power wherewith it can once again be true to itself."
- Charles Malik, Lebanon's delegate to the UN, 1951 -
"In Iran, in Egypt, in a dozen other countries, when people asked: 'Who are you? What are you doing here?' the West's only answer was an unintelligible mutter."
"Merry Vengeful Christmas, Happy Bloody Hanukkah, Rat-a-tat Ramadan - the Blood of Men seeking ground to be spilled on in a mad rush t'wards our Righteous Judgment...every religion's nut cases runnin' the show, the clash of civilizations will decide whose side God is on, eh? Ol' dumb as a tack Arafat insisting that the Palestinian cause has nothing to do with Osama bin Oswald, hee hee. Hey Yassir! It doesn't matter! If Ariel Sharon says so, that's the way it is! Just like Bush linking Al Paid-Up to Saddam Insane! It's in the bag, you fool! You had your chance! Clinton and Barak were the best hope you had! Sure, you would still be 'Apartheid-ed' - but your people wouldn't be trapped in this endless 'Martyr Of The Day' insanity! Freakin' moron...
"These guys play for keeps. They may even believe they are carrying out their programs for benign, patriotic reasons -- to protect American interests (which tends to mean mostly U.S. corporate interests), to defend the homeland, etc. -- but, even if that were true, their actions will do just the opposite."
"Hey, right-wingers, how do you like your 'conservative' court-appointed
president's plan to monitor the Internet by mandating 'security'
cooperation between the government and Internet Service providers? It
works for China, why not George W. Bush?
- Barry Crimmins -
"Look at what Bush is doing. He could invade."
- South African health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on why they're spending money on submarines to deter a U.S attack instead of on drugs to combat AIDS which is ravaging the nation -
"Your village called. Their idiot is missing."
- phone call from Michael Dare to George W. Bush -
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
- Dante (1265-1321) -
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
- Kris Kristofferson as quoted by Janis Joplin -
"Thank God for the Internet. It was in cyberspace that scores of bloggers -- including Josh Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com, Glenn Reynolds of instapundit.com, Mickey Klaus of klausfiles.com, and Andrew Sullivan of andrewsullivan.com -- continued hammering away at the story, and eventually succeeded in moving it out of the shadows into the political spotlight."
-
Arianna Huffington on the Lott scandal -
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill -
"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
- Thomas Szasz -
"Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot are fools, and those who dare not are slaves."
- Lord Byron -
"Chaos will yield to harmony."
- Dennis Kucinich -
"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Talmudic Saying
"Just because you CAN beat him up, doesn't give you the right to."
- Spiderman's Uncle -
ANOTHER CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM HELL
JOB SEARCH FROM HELL
Winona Ryder is being hired to advertise the items she stole.
EASY DO-IT-YOURSELF REWRITE FROM HELL
On the 12th day of Christmas
My country took from me...
12) Civil liberties
11)
10)
9)
8)
7)
6)
5)
4)
3)
2)
and a political detainee.
SITES FROM HELL
The People's Investigation of 9/11 is an assemblage of international researchers and activists who say "We declare a national emergency in uncovering what really happened on 9/11/2001 through an immediate call for an independent collaborative investigation worldwide. The U.S. government could help us but instead is doing everything it can to stop any investigations into 9/11."
The Remedi Project, launched in 1997, is an online interactive art gallery. Over the course of its five year lifespan, 12 exhibitions have presented experimental work from over 60 digital artists from around the world. Amazing stuff.
The Cacophony Society is the squeak in the door of normalcy, the dada clowns rewiring the neural circuits of the community, the fart at the board meeting, and the happy dog rolling on the carcass of preconceptions.
Yes,
surface.yugop is one of those inexplicable sites by a random madman that makes no sense at all yet is full of graphical experiments that are extremely compelling.
NAFTA is putting Mexican farmers
out of business. They're being undercut by American imports.
This very cool page has the cover of every single
Time Magazine Person of the Year.
Gee, ever wonder what's going on with the black boxes from the hijacked 9/11 flights? Check
this out.
The weirdest thing about
Nobody Here is that there's somebody there and he's very strange. Just click on stuff. It's intensely creative.
Learn the wonders of
plunderphonics, a site devoted to legally borrowing from the ingredients of other people's sonic manifestations.
There is a force for one-world government that isn't the United Nations. Check out
Global Nation.
Jeff and Tracy are Republicans. They smoke pot and their goal is to make it legal in Oregon.
Too homophobic to visit a priest? Why not buy a
ticket to heaven?
We will
We will
Nuke you
We will
We will
Nuke you
We will
We will
Nuke you
We will
We will
Nuke you
Merry Christmas
Don't let this happen to you.
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Acknowledgment
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fair use.
Thanks,
Satan
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Many thanks to Michael Dare!
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Conservative Group Blasts O'Reilly
from Alex
The conservative group Accuracy in Media is stepping up its criticism of Fox
News host Bill O'Reilly. In a commentary that aired Thursday on some 150
radio stations (and was published on the group's website under the heading
"Shame on Fox News"), contributing editor Cliff Kincaid took O'Reilly to
task for his "liberal views on the death penalty, global warming and
homosexuality." Kincaid, who has also voiced criticism of radio talk-show
host Rush Limbaugh, was especially critical of an O'Reilly interview with
Dennis Hof, owner of a legal brothel in Nevada, in connection with the Dec.
8 HBO telecast of the documentary Cathouse. The interview, said Kincaid,
"certainly gives a lie to the claim that Fox News is 'conservative' down the
line. This is the kind of story that makes conservatives wince. ... What
about the morality of having sex with strangers outside of marriage?"
Conservative Group Blasts O'Reilly
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By Jason Leopold
`I Wanna Riot, A Riot of My Own'
"…There is, perhaps, some tension in society, when perhaps overwhelming pressure brings industry to a standstill or barricades to the streets years after the liberals had dismissed the notion as dated romanticism, the journalist invents the theory that this contributes a clash of generations. Youth, after all, is not a permanent condition, and a clash of generations is not so fundamentally dangerous to the art of government as would be a clash between rulers and ruled…"
--From the liner notes of the Clash's self-titled 1977 debut album.
The Clash's debut album never made its way to this side of the Atlantic when it was first released twenty-five years ago because it was considered to explosive for American audiences--not musically, but lyrically. This was, after all, a country that was still licking its wounds from the war in Vietnam and still smarting from the political scandal that forced Richard Nixon to resign as President of the United States.
The last thing the corporate suits at CBS Records wanted was a punk named Joe Strummer preaching about life on London's streets to disenchanted American youths. Even the band's name, The Clash, seemed to be an invitation to challenge the establishment. What would happen if songs like "White Riot" ("I wanna riot, A riot of my own"), "Career Opportunities" ("The ones that never knock"), "I'm So Bored with the USA" ("Yankee dollars talk to the dictators of the world"), were heard here? It could spark a revolution because that's exactly how we felt. Had it not been for the Clash there would be no Rage Against the Machine.
With the recent passing of Joey Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone and Sunday's death of Clash vocalist, guitarist and main songwriter Joe Strummer you can't help but feel that punk rock is also dead. No artist today has the lyrical intelligence that Strummer displayed in The Clash's early songs that would actually move you to the point where you feel like you're making a difference in the world just by listening to the music. Dylan did that. So did Bob Marley and Nirvana. Thank God Dylan's still with us. What made The Clash a great band was the way they took R&B, Ska and reggae and infused it with Strummer's politically-charged lyrics and turned it into punk rock. You still wanted to rage but you could also dance.
The great music journalist Lester Bangs wrote in his seminal book "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" that with the arrival of punk rock "buying records became fun again, and one reason it did was that all these groups embodied the who-gives-a-damn-let's-just-slam-it-at-'em spirit of great rock 'n roll … Punk had repeated the very attitudes it copped (BOREDOM and INDIFFERENCE), and we were all waiting for a group to come along who at least went through the motions of GIVING A DAMN about SOMETHING. Ergo, the Clash."
The state of the nation, with all of these corporate scandals, a possible war in Iraq, the racist statements by Trent Lott and the secrecy within the Bush administration, is what makes The Clash just as relevant today as they were twenty-five years ago. Back then, Strummer wrote a song called "Hate & War" that, unfortunately, is history repeating itself.
Hate and war - the only things we got today
An' if I close my eyes
They will not go away
You have to deal with it
It is the currency
Hate...hate...hate...
The hate of a nation
A million miles from home
Next year, The Clash will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Perhaps most disappointing about Strummer's loss is that a reunion of sorts would have taken place between Strummer and the rest of the band. But somewhere up in heaven, Strummer is writing songs with Joey and Dee Dee and Bangs is happy again
~~ jason leopold
Beautiful job, Jason! Thank you!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Beautiful day, too much to do. ; )
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS has NOTHING fresh - RERUN 'JAG', RERUN 'The Guardian', RERUN 'Judging Amy'.
Dave is Pre-empted.
Craiggers is Pre-empted.
NBC rolls out the movie 'It's A Wonderful Life', again. Wanna bet Mr. Potter was also the chairman of their local republican party?
Jay is Pre-empted.
Conan is Pre-empted.
Carson Daly is Pre-empted.
ABC has NOTHING fresh - RERUN '8 Simple Rules', RERUN 'Jim', RERUN 'Bonnie', RERUN 'Less Than Perfect', and RERUN 'NYPD Blue'.
The WB has NOTHING fresh - RERUN 'Gilmore Girls' and a RERUN 'Smallville'.
Faux opens the night with the RERUN 'Santa Baby!', then 'Funniest Holiday Moments'.
UPN has a RERUN 'Buffy' followed by a RERUN 'Buffy'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Paris
Notre-Dame
La cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris va, à partir de lundi, bénéficier d'un nouvel habit de lumières taillé sur mesure pour mettre en valeur sa façade majestueuse et sa riche statuaire.
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First Free Concert Since Altamont
Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones announced plans on Monday to play their first free concert since the Altamont debacle in California 33 years ago when the Hells Angels turned a "thank you" show into a bloodbath.
The new concert, scheduled for Feb. 6 at the 20,000-capacity Staples Center in Los Angeles, promises to be a more sedate affair. It will raise awareness of global warming, the band's publicity firm Rogers & Cowan said in a statement.
Producer Steve Bing, a key Democrat fundraiser and father of model Elizabeth Hurley's baby boy, will pay for the show, which the band is organizing with the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonpartisan environmental lobby group.
U.S. fans can apply once for two free tickets by logging on to a Web site (http://www.nrdcstonesconcert.org) or by mailing an application, both by Jan. 6. No donation is required. There will be
6,000 winners randomly selected from the applications in January.
The free show comes at the end of the group's "Licks" North American tour, which began in Boston last September and will gross an estimated $120 million. The band will then begin an Australian
leg before playing Japan, possibly other Asian countries and then Europe.
Rolling Stones
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Downtown Moscow
Lubyanka Square
A New Year tree stands in front of the Federal Security Service headquarters in Lubyanka Square in downtown Moscow, Monday, Dec. 23, 2002. The tree site is where
a monument once stood to Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret services, and has been the recent focus of controversy over whether the monument should be restored there.
Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko
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Performs for the Elderly
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis had senior citizens dancing until the early morning hours as he and his jazz quartet gave a rousing performance at a center for the elderly.
The sold-out event was held at Fort Greene Senior Citizens Center in Brooklyn on Friday night to save certain centers from closing because of budget constraints.
Though the setting wasn't as swanky as Lincoln Center, where Marsalis is artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the audience was far more animated, hooting and hollering and even shouting out requests.
Marsalis took note of the song suggestions, then joked: "I'm gonna play whatever I want!"
Marsalis' quartet performed until past midnight at the event, which raised $12,000. Organizers say two centers in the area are in danger of closing because of city budget constraints.
Wynton Marsalis
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Miramax Books to Publish
Tim Russert
NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert has agreed to terms with Miramax Books for a memoir about "fathers and sons," ending an intense bidding war.
The memoir, not yet titled, is scheduled to come out for Father's Day in 2004.
Russert's representative, Washington, D.C., attorney Bob Barnett, said Monday that about 10 publishers competed for the book. Financial terms were not disclosed, but a source close
to the negotiations said the deal was worth about $3 million.
Barnett's other clients include former President Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose memoirs will be published by Miramax next year.
Tim Russert
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Looking Toward The Brandenburg Gate
Unter Den Linden
Fußgänger flanieren am Sonntag in Berlin unter erleuchteten Bäumen vor dem Brandenburger Tor entlang.
Photo by Michael Dalder
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FCC Ownership-Rules Plans (Pay Attention!)
Hearings Set
Taking a step toward serious scrutiny of eased media ownership rules, Columbia University's law school has set a daylong public hearing over the Federal Communications Commission's proposed loosening of the regulations for Jan. 16.
The confab -- which is not under the agency's aegis -- will be the first comprehensive event to review the dozen FCC studies that argue that the current rules are outdated.
Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps told Daily Variety that he's encouraged by the development and hopes it means that several more such events will take place before the expected FCC vote in the spring. He said various groups have
held preliminary discussions about the possibility of other hearings in Los Angeles or San Francisco but added that nothing definite has been set.
Columbia's move comes two weeks after FCC chairman Michael Powell agreed to hold at least one public hearing on the agency's plan, setting a hearing for Richmond, Va., sometime in February. Powell had been criticized for initially refusing to
hold such confabs, asserting that written responses were the appropriate means of obtaining public input.
Powell and others have argued that ownership rules may not be as necessary when there are so many media outlets such as cable, satellite and the Internet. Key FCC rules that could be eased include a national cap prohibiting
a broadcaster from reaching more than 35% of the national audience; a national cap blocking cablers from reaching more than 30% of the national aud; and a cross-ownership ban on owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same major market.
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Step-Stool Of Success, Bush-League
Billy Bush
NBC has said "Let's Make a Deal" to "Access Hollywood" correspondent Billy Bush, who's won a chance to host a new version of the classic game show.
Bush will step into the role made famous by Monty Hall, who's still on board as an executive producer of the revival. NBC has ordered five episodes to air sometime this spring.
Bush, who's first cousin to the U.S. president, joined "Access Hollywood" in December 2001. He also serves as a contributor for NBC's "Today" show.
Bush launched his career in radio, working at stations in New Hampshire and later Washington, D.C., where he hosted "Billy Bush and the Bush League Morning Show" for WWZZ-FM.
"My greatest joy is knowing that lots of people will be seeing this show for the first time," Bush said. "This is a great relief because the fewer people who
compare me to the great Monty Hall, the better. Above all else, I hope to make him proud."
Billy Bush
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More Freaking Bloopers
UPN
This must be what Viacom had in mind when it merged CBS and UPN operations: Blooper synergy.
Thanks to the relationship between both networks, UPN will air its first-ever outtakes special, "UPN's Funky Flubs," next month.
The folks at Andrew Solt Prods., which has produced 12 editions of "CBS' Funny Flubs and Screw-Ups," initially asked CBS if they wanted to include any UPN goofs in future editions.
Instead, CBS executives realized there were enough UPN gaffes (no, there's no video of UPN execs greenlighting "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer") to create a stand-alone show for the fledgling network.
Solt even plans to produce two episodes of "Funny Flubs" the day before it produces "Funky Flubs," saving a good deal of time and money.
UPN
Los Angeles is the 2nd largest media-market in the US. CBS owns channel 2 (KCBS), UPN (channel 13), AND an 'independent' (KCAL). So, far, it's operating as a duopoly - is a triopoly next? Jeez - 3 channels with nothing but crap rotating between themselves? How many freaking times can 'Judge Judy' be rerun in one market on multiple channels? Yeah, we need more 'consolidation' - NOT!
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In The 'Forbidden City'
Christmas Snowman
Ein Schneemann mit weihnachtlicher Dekoration schmückt einen Platz in der "Verbotenen Stadt" in der chinesischen Hauptstadt Peking. Das christliche Weihnachtsfest erfreut sich in der Volksrepublik
zunehmener Beliebtheit. Die Aufnahme enstand am Montag.
Photo by Guang Niu
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The BIG Picture
'Lion King' To IMAX
It has been a movie and a Broadway show, sold millions of records, books and toys, and on Christmas Day, Disney's popular animated film "The Lion King" will debut on giant Imax screens around the world.
The Imax version follows Walt Disney Co.'s recent success re-releasing animated films like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Fantasia/2000" on the large-screen theaters, which are as high as an eight-story building.
For Imax Corp., bringing the 1994 smash hit to their theaters represents part of its ongoing effort to show mainstream Hollywood movies to boost revenues.
While Disney uses its own technology for its animated films, Imax has developed a "digital re-mastering" process it calls DMR for live action films.
"The Lion King" will be seen in Imax theaters in over 60 theaters in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Australia. At the end of September, more than 225 Imax theaters operated around the world.
The original movie remains the highest grossing animated film of all time, with $771 million in global ticket sales, the video has sold over 30 million copies in the U.S. The stage show has generated over $900 million in global ticket sales.
'Lion King' To IMAX
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Vampire Hysteria (Or Republican Awareness?)
Malawi
A bizarre rumor that Malawi's government is colluding with vampires to collect human blood for international aid agencies in exchange for food has led to a rash of vigilante violence.
President Bakili Muluzi accused unnamed opposition politicians on Sunday of spreading the vampire stories to try to undermine his government, already hit by political protests and widespread food shortages.
Vampire paranoia has sparked several attacks on suspected bloodsuckers, despite official efforts to kill the rumor.
Muluzi told a news conference on Sunday the vampire stories were malicious and irresponsible. "No government can go about sucking blood of its own people," he said. "That's thuggery."
Malawi
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Reader Contribution
from Rob
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Good for Your Health
Protesting
Taking part in protests and demonstrations can be good for your physical and mental health, a new British study suggests.
Psychologists at the University of Sussex found that people who get involved in campaigns, strikes and political demonstrations experience an improvement in psychological well-being that can help them overcome stress, pain, anxiety and depression.
"Collective actions, such as protests, strikes, occupations and demonstrations, are less common in the UK than they were perhaps 20 years ago," researcher Dr. John Drury said in a statement.
"The take-home message from this research therefore might be that people should get more involved in campaigns, struggles and social movements, not only in the wider interest of social change but also for their own personal good."
The results emerged from in-depth interviews with nearly 40 activists from a variety of backgrounds. Between them, they had more than 160 experiences of collective action involving groups of demonstrators protesting against a
range of issues. These included fox-hunting, environmental damage and industrial matters.
"Empowering events were almost without exception described as joyous occasions," said Drury. "Participants experienced a deep sense of happiness and even euphoria in being involved in protest events. Simply recounting the
events in the interview brought a smile to the face of the interviewees."
Protesting
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In Memory
Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer, frontman with the Clash whose 1979 track "London Calling" exploded as one of punk's biggest anthems, has died at the age of 50, a spokesman said on Monday.
The singer, guitarist and songwriter died on Sunday at his home in Somerset, western England of unknown causes.
"We do not yet know the cause of death, but we believe it was not suspicious and that he passed away peacefully. An autopsy will be forthcoming," the spokesman said.
Born John Graham Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, Strummer's talents propelled him from playing for change on the London Underground to fame with the Clash, who with the Sex Pistols defined the in-your-face sound and style of 1970s British punk.
Until they split in the 1980s, the Clash produced a catalog of punk classics, including "Career Opportunities" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go?," distilling the depression, anger and energy of 1970s Britain.
But they transcended the three-chord aggression to deliver messages of anti-racism and social consciousness. Strummer, the son of a British diplomat, wrote many of their biggest hits.
"He was one of the most important figures in modern British music, a powerful performer and wordsmith on a level with Bob Dylan," said Pat Gilbert, editor of British music magazine Mojo
"His music had compassion and vision, backed with an agenda to change the world for the better," he told Reuters.
Sometimes described as rebels with a cause, the Clash fused a variety of musical styles -- reggae, funk and even rap -- with a political message that brought punk to the mainstream and also found big success in the U.S. market.
Bono, lead singer from the Irish band U2, said: "The Clash was the greatest rock band. They wrote the rule book for U2."
In 1976, Strummer met a then 23-year-old guitarist Mick Jones and linked up with bassist Paul Simonon and drummer Terry Chimes. As the Clash, the quartet made an immediate and explosive impact in Britain.
Rolling Stone magazine called their 1977 eponymous debut "The definitive punk album."
Follow-ups "Give 'Em Enough Rope" (1978), and "London Calling" (1979) also became instant punk classics. After The Clash split, a tireless Strummer stayed center stage with a variety of projects, dabbling in acting and writing music for films.
More recently, Strummer toured with a new band, the Mescaleros, and played a benefit concert with Mick Jones in November, reuniting with his partner in punk for the first time in nearly 20 years.
At the time of his death, Strummer was collaborating with U2's Bono and Dave Stewart, formerly of the Eurythmics, on an AIDS awareness track.
"The Clash are to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year and there was hope that there would be a reunion and a tour...this must be especially sad for their fans," Gilbert said.
Strummer's death was a double blow for punk fans still mourning the fatal drug overdose in June of singer Dee Dee Ramone from legendary American band the Ramones.
Strummer is survived by his wife, two daughters and one stepdaughter.
Joe Strummer
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