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by Helen A. Handbasket
In The News
Shopping With The Clintons
Neal Travis of Pagesix.com is reporting " With Las Vegas currently promoting itself as a shopping mecca rather than a gambling den, last week's visit by Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea couldn't have come at a better time. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Chelsea is going to be the world's best-dressed back-to-schooler. She dropped a bundle at Versace and other famous-name stores, while dad mostly went for his top-of-the-line shoes at Ferragamo. The father-and-daughter team checked out luggage at El Portal and Louis Vuitton and, aided by their Secret Service detail, schlepped dozens of bags of goodies back to their $3,900-a-night, 4,400-square-foot penthouse suite at the Four Seasons. Over three nights, they dined at Spago, got the best seats for the campy old Siegfried & Roy show and took in "O" at the Bellagio. I can imagine them finally leaving Vegas and telling each other, "We're not in Little Rock anymore!" " To read the rest of this report, Chelsea~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Siegfried, Chelsea, Bill & Roy
New TV Season
Emeril
Lagasse, already the top draw on cable's Food Network with ``Emeril Live'' and ``Essence of Emeril,'' is getting his own half-hour comedy on NBC. Plain old ``Emeril,'' premiering Sept. 18, is being written by Linda Bloodworth and directed by her husband Harry Thomason, the team behind ``Designing Women'' and ``Evening Shade.'' The series already is the victim of some bad buzz. Several changes have been made since the poorly received pilot, including adding Robert Urich to the cast as Lagasse's agent and concentrating on workplace antics instead of a fictional family. Turns out, Lagasse's leap from reality to sitcom isn't a big one: On the new show, he plays a chef with a TV cooking show who struggles to balance work and home (Mary Page Keller plays his wife). Since he doesn't live in Los Angeles, where the show is taped, he demanded that there be a full-time chef advising the fictional cooking segments. ``If we're eating raspberry coffee cake on the show, I want it to be a real raspberry coffee cake, not a prop. I have my food reputation to consider.'' To read the rest of this article, Emeril To read NBC's page on the show, More Emeril To visit The Food Network, Food TV.com And, to visit Emeril's site, Still More Emeril~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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TV News
Mr. Rogers Retires
The neighborhood will never be the same. After more than 30 years of greeting youngsters each day on television with his trademark ``Hi, neighbor,'' Fred Rogers is putting away his cardigan and sneakers for good. His television show, ``Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,'' will continue to appear on Public Broadcasting System for years to come in reruns, but the last original episodes of the show will air this week on PBS, ending on Friday. As for Rogers himself, he has not ruled out an occasional ''Neighborhood'' special in the future, but said he is currently working on a number of other projects targeted at youngsters. One of those is a story that will appear on PBS's Web site. Set to debut next month, it will feature Rogers' voice in an interactive tale based in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. To read more, Mr. Rogers~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Music News
The Shared Flute Project
The tiny tribe of Kalispel Indians is staging an outdoor opera on its reservation this week with help from what Kalispel elder Francis Cullooyah calls ``the Mozart tribe.'' The Mozarts - actually opera singers from New York, Seattle, and Spokane - are joining the Kalispels in staging a production of ``The Magic Flute'' on the tribe's open-air powwow grounds Wednesday night, next to a buffalo herd, with the Selkirk Mountains as backdrop. Opera is not the first thing that springs to mind when one enters Usk, a community of perhaps 200 people about 50 miles north of Spokane, and sees pickup trucks, a timber mill and a few restaurants. But it came to Libby Kopczynski Moore's mind after she helped produce an opera in Newport, just south of Usk, last year. She then decided to try staging an opera with the Kalispels, a tribe with just 345 enrolled members, who occupy a 5,000-acre reservation along the Pend Oreille River. ``I thought `The Magic Flute' would be interesting with tribal mythology,'' said Kopczynski Moore, a Spokane native who's now a professional singer in New York. She called Cullooyah, who was intrigued, and the Shared Flute Project was born. Tribal members will add their own interpretations to the opera, part of which will be narrated in the Kalispel language by Cullooyah, with the rest in English. Some Indian musical instruments will be used. ``We still have to say words to the notes that Mozart wrote,'' said Rednour, an Usk native. Much of the chorus will be made up of the tribe's Frog Island Singers, dressed in traditional Kalispel clothing. In the meantime, Cullooyah likes the idea of bringing opera out of the city. ``I used to be scared of opera,'' he said. ``I went to one opera, and wore a tux and tails.'' ``This is going to be something that is talked about for years around here,'' he predicted. To read the rest, The Shared Flute Project~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NEW!
Bartcop Astrology
Check it out at BC Astrology. Have you ever checked out Robert Johnson's or Andres Segovia's horoscope? Pretty cool stuff! (And, to read Buzzcook's riff, see bcEntertainment (7/31/01)). Cutting to the chase, here is Buzzcook's list of guitar gods: Chick Webb Robert Johnson Albert King John Lee Hooker Hell if you don't already know John Lee, no link will save ya. Joe Pass Django Reinhardt Andres Segovia Mr. Guitar~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In The News
Ambassador Angelina
Angelina Jolie, newly appointed goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency, wiped tears from her eyes as she described her encounters with Afghan refugees in Pakistan. ``What do you do about that? It's really awful,'' said the 26-year-old actress as she told reporters about small children scratching a living by picking through garbage. Jolie started visiting refugee camps earlier this year. She has released the journal she kept during visits to Sierra Leone and Tanzania on the Internet to publicize the work of the UNHCR. To read more about Ambassador Angelina, Ambassador Angelina~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TV News
Larry King Gets 'Cerebral'
There's nothing talk-show host Larry King would like to do more than take a year off and broadcast baseball on radio or television. ``Sports is really my avocation,'' King said, while attending a Provo Angels rookie league doubleheader against Casper on Saturday. ``It's the first thing I read in the newspaper every day.'' ``There's nothing more cerebral for me than watching the shadows fall across the field,'' King said. ``There's something about being raised on baseball that makes it become part of the fabric of your life.'' King filled in as an announcer part of the time Saturday, and during the fifth-inning stretch of the first game, he led the crowd in singing ``Take Me Out to the Ball Game.'' To read the whole story, Larry King~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In The News
Burning Man Is Coming
Larry Harvey's 16th annual celebration of radical self-expression doesn't start until Monday, but workers setting up here some 120 miles north of Reno have already posted a sign at the entrance to the event site: BURNING MAN WAS BETTER LAST YEAR. "People seem to be asking me a lot, 'Has it peaked'?" says Harvey, who held his first burn of a wooden effigy on a San Francisco beach in 1986 and watched the crowds swell in following years from 20 to over 20,000, forcing the event to its current location. San Francisco's arch hipsters annually bemoan that Burning Man used to be better, but this year Harvey is facing his first-ever downturn in attendance. Advance ticket sales, he says, suggest a 5 percent drop from last year's peak of 25,500 attendees. Attendance skyrocketed along with San Francisco's Internet startups in the late 1990s, so it seems only natural to expect a fall off in 2001. "The dot-com thing will affect us a little bit," he admits. Burning Man 2001 is bigger than ever in budget -- over $4 million -- and in the size of its on-site art installations. The Man himself will reach new heights this year, boosted to 70 feet above the desert floor by a new three-story pedestal, suggesting a more libertine Statue of Liberty. To tour the inside of the pedestal prior to next Saturday night -- when it and the Man will be torched as the celebration's climax -- participants will need to collect stamps from six large-scale installations that represent this year's theme: Shakespeare's seven ages of man. The tour culminates at a mausoleum built out of jigsaw dinosaur puzzle bones several hundred yards out on the Black Rock Desert playa -- a dry lake bed managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Visitors will be asked to leave notes about personal loss in the mausoleum, which will also be torched at week's end. But the bulk of Burning Man's art and energy comes from participants, many of whom spend small personal fortunes to build and transport original works to the desert for a week. This year's participant artworks range from "large-scale sound art" (read: big stereos) to a set of 14 green neon towers ranging to 50 feet high, based on the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz. But the Burning Man ethos is best captured by theme camp Illumination Village: "Creating World Class Art and Lighting It on Fire." Help comes in the form of grants to artists from the company's nonprofit spinoff, Black Rock Arts, which in its most recent fiscal year donated $250,000 directly to promising projects. Behind the pyrotechnics, Harvey still has hopes for Burning Man as a tonic for a culture he feels has become too focused on fulfillment through consumption of mass-produced goods. "It replaces the traditions that tell you who and what and where you are," he said. Harvey's personal thesis on society could fill a book, but he offers an executive summary: "Make your own damn world." For the rest of this article, Burning Man 1 To read more about Burning Man, Burning Man 2~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The ever-intrepid Virgil has offered to be the eyes and ears of BartCop Entertainment on the scene that is Burning Man. Dispatches will be posted, as will the photos (if they come out this year), as received. ~~Marty
In Memory
Bob Martwick
Bob Martwick, who discovered and handled Morris the Cat, died Sunday. He was 75. A lifelong pet lover and one-time owner of a kennel in suburban Lombard, Ill., Martwick found the original Morris at a humane shelter in nearby Hinsdale in the 1960s, when Starkist Seafood was looking for a cat to star in television advertisements for its Nine Lives cat food. The original Morris died in the 1970s, but Martwick also served as handler for the second Morris. In all, Martwick spent 27 years touring the nation with the two finicky orange cats. To read more, Bob Martwick~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
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