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Season Finale
Murder In Small Town X
Tonight is the season finale of 'Murder In Small Town X'...
Who dunnit?
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by Helen A. Handbasket
Music News
'System Of A Down' Concert Update
Hundreds of rock music fans went on the rampage at a free concert in Hollywood
Monday night, trashing the stage and raining rocks and bottles on police, who
replied with tear gas and rubber bullets, officials said.
Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Jason Lee, describing the scene as
``a small disturbance,'' said about 10,000 people were at the event, which was
a promotion for fast-rising local rock band System Of A Down.
When several hundred fans were unable to gain access to a fenced parking lot
enclosure where the concert was due to take place for 3,500 people, they jumped
the barricades and rushed forward. Fire officials canceled the concert before
the group had taken the stage and called in police.
About 160 police officers, some on horseback, dispersed the crowd and arrested
six people for such offenses as assault with a deadly weapon, felony vandalism
and receiving stolen property.
A TV news report said that $30,000 worth of the band's equipment was destroyed
or stolen.
The System Of A Down concert was designed to help promote the group's hotly
anticipated new album, ``Toxicity,'' which is due in stores Tuesday.
For all the details, System Of A Down
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Music News
KROQ's Free Concert Ends Early
Los Angeles police say a 'disturbance' following a free outdoor concert in
Hollywood has ended with one arrest. No one was hurt.
City fire spokesman Brian Humphrey says the band 'System Of A Down' had a permit
to play in a parking lot on Sunset Boulevard and Shrader Avenue.
About 5 pm, some fans rushed barricades and police shut down the concert. Police
say that's when other fans began to get unruly.
For the few details currently available, System Of A Down
This was our entertainment at dinner time.
(Tonight, after 30-odd years in LA, I realized that the only time we see horses
here are on January 1st, in the Rose Parade---and when LAPD 'cracks' down...)
Local radio is claiming that while 3,500 were expected for the concert,
over 10,000 showed up.
~~Marty
TV News
Jerry Lewis Telethon
Jerry Lewis, headlining his 36th annual Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon,
raised a record $56.8 million to fight neuromuscular diseases.
The telethon, originating from CBS Television City in Hollywood, was broadcast
for 21 1/2 hours on about 200 TV stations around the country during the Labor
weekend. As usual, the variety show featured celebrity co-hosts, including
Ed McMahon, Norm Crosby and Casey Kasem.
Lewis said he was gratified to have exceeded his goal of raising $1 more than
year's $54.6 million total.
Lewis has threatened to conduct the telethon each Labor Day until a cure is
found for neuromuscular diseases.
For more details, Telethon
As an old, very late-night, long-time viewer of this telethon, I gotta say it
seemed like an excercise in video cut & paste TV, especially in the wee hours....
the 'Andy Williams in Branson' stuff was down-right pathetic.
Poor ole Jerry looked like he was doing his 'Jabba the Nut' routine...
On the other hand, Savion Glover was worth the wait, and then some!
~~Marty
Disney News
Disneyland Finally Safe For Hippos
Disneyland officials, who say they're only keeping up with today's
sensibilities, have quietly disarmed the skippers of the Jungle Cruise,
raising eyebrows among fans of one of the park's oldest, most cherished
attractions.
No more do the wisecracking skippers reach for their Smith & Wessons and fire
a few blanks at hippopotamuses emerging from the river bottom. These days,
they don't even try to scare the mechanical creatures with a few haphazard
gunshots skyward. The guns were yanked at the Anaheim park this spring and
now the hippos are just another passing attraction during an African-themed
cruise.
The hippos may have a second lease on life, but the cruise still is filled
with plenty of politically incorrect characters: a gun-wielding gorilla,
savages toting shrunken heads and "natives" with painted faces preparing to
attack the tourists.
Disneyland has stopped short of removing all weaponry from the park. Marauding
pirates are still armed, and just around the corner from the Jungle Cruise, the
coin-operated shooting gallery in Frontierland still sees a steady stream of
gunslingers.
For the rest, Disneyland Disarms
Also...
Another Disneyland Update!
KNBC (NBC4LA.com), is reporting tonight ..."
Disney says the "Country Bear Playhouse," which features 20 animated singing
bears, will shut down next Sunday after a 29-year run.
New!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Michele
"In the Kitchen with Bartcop and Friends" is an electronic recipe file.
These pages will attempt to catalog the best recipes from Bartcop and his
readers.
This idea was spawned by Bartcop's excellent Train Station Chicken
recipe -- if you haven't tried it, you must! It's foolproof, perfect fried
chicken.
We need more recipes like that; the dish that you always make for family gatherings, the one thing people rave about and demand you make for them. Please email them to recipes@pdxnet.net and she will review and post them.
Don't worry about the HTML, just send text, or rich text, or a Word document, photos, video, whatever you have, and Michele will take care of making it web-ready. Don't hesitate to write with any questions you may have and bring on the recipes!
To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more, In The Kitchen With BartCop
Book News
Stephen King Offers Words Of Wisdom
Horror writer Stephen King urged incoming freshmen at the University of Maine
to do as he did at his alma mater - make the best of it.
King told stories about naked freshmen and late-night poker games at his first
address here in four years, but also found time to get serious.
``My ability to think for myself and to write fearlessly came from the
University of Maine,'' King told the gathering of students Sunday.
The king of horror will be back here Oct. 3, which the university has designated
as Stephen King Day.
For more details, Stephen King
BartCop TV Is Here!
Visit the site at BC TV
The 'Vidiot', has updated, again!
There is even more to check!
The Vidiot.
You'll find an amazing amount of information, on an amazing variety of TV shows,
thanks to our Vidiot.
Film News
The Vault Is Closed
Reels of American pop culture--old Abbott & Costello and James Bond movies,
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," even the original copy of the 1968 horror classic
"Night of the Living Dead"--are stranded in a Pennsylvania laboratory that
was suddenly shuttered last month when a Canadian bank foreclosed on the
property.
The celluloid treasures are among 750,000 canisters of film inside the
climate-controlled vault of WRS Motion Picture & Video Laboratory, on the
outskirts of Pittsburgh.
Some of the films stored at WRS are the master negatives needed to make the
best prints and duplicates or for transfer to other formats, such as DVD.
Studio officials declined to discuss the situation or identify films they
stored at WRS. Court papers, however, say copies of "Raging Bull" and the
James Bond and Pink Panther series were among those archived in the massive vault.
Since Aug. 3, the lab and its satellite facilities, including one in Los
Angeles, have been idle, leaving companies and film producers in limbo and,
in the case of some, angst-ridden.
To read all the particulars, Stuck In Pittsburgh
Check it out at BC Astrology.
Have you ever checked out Eric Clapton or Chet Atkins' horoscope?
Pretty cool stuff!
Adult Beverage News
There Is A Reason This Beer Tastes Like Shit...
Even the keenest beer drinker may hesitate before sampling the latest beverage
on sale in the Orkney islands off northern Scotland -- a "Stone Age" beer
flavored with animal dung.
Historians have recreated the recipe after uncovering what they claim is a
5,000-year-old pub and brewery on the remote archipelago.
Merryn Dineley, a Manchester University historian and chief brewer of the
ancient liquor, told the weekly paper The Observer Sunday that the brew was
"quite delicious." The ale is brewed in clay pots with traces of baked animal
droppings.
For more details, Shitty beer
Democratic Fundraiser
Footloose In Seattle?
Erin Hart
Join Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana at the Eastside Democrats
Dinner and Fundraiser September 9, 2001 at the Bellevue Hyatt. Special
guests include Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.
Erin Hart of 710 KIRO is the Emcee.
For more information, visit Erin's site (Erin Hart),
and say 'hi' to Brian, the webmaster.
(Or, Erin Hart for Netscape Users)
Erin Hart is regularly scheduled Saturday & Sunday evenings, 9pm - 1am (pdt),
on KIRO, in Seattle (but, with Mariners games, she may be pre-empted). The
audio streams, the chatroom is interesting, and the topics run from liberal
to progressive.
Besides, I know Erin. A long, long time ago, she set me up on
a date with a Reagan speech writer, and I still speak to her!
LOL -- remember that one? *!*
Then there are the tales of the Hollywood record producer, too...
I'll never listen to 'Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida' the same way again...heh heh heh...
~~Marty
In Memory
Pauline Kael
Movie critic Pauline Kael, a brash, witty champion of artistic quality who
thrashed both facile commercialism and self-indulgent pretense from her lofty
perch at The New Yorker, has died. She was 82.
David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, said that Kael broke down barriers
low and high cinema in her reviews, delighting in both the sublime and the
profane.
Physically petite but headstrong in her opinions, she became one of the
20th century's most important and recognizable film critics. She called the
movies ``our national theater'' and helped establish the reputations of such
filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman and Steven Spielberg.
Her views often defied popular taste. She left McCall's after sounding off
about ``The Sound of Music'' in an article headlined ``The Sound of Money.''
She thought ``Rain Man'' a ``wet piece of kitsch.'' She dismissed
``Dances With Wolves'' as a ``nature-boy movie'' and famously mocked
director-star Kevin Costner as ``having feathers in his hair and feathers in
his head.''
Ms. Kael deeply admired such contemporary films as ``Bonnie and Clyde,''
``Weekend,'' ``The Godfather'' ``MASH,'' ``The Garden of the Finzi Continis,''
and ``Mean Streets.'' She likened ``Last Tango in Paris'' to ``Rite of Spring,''
calling it ``a departure from everything we've come to expect at the
movies. ... the most powerfully erotic movie ever made, and it may turn out to
be the most liberating movie ever made.''
Consistently, she defended artistic creativity, subtlety and refined
craftsmanship. In an Associated Press interview in 1989, she lamented, ``You
can't get college kids interested in going to any sort of daring movie now.
They're perfectly willing to sit through the same old crap, a larger version
of what they've seen on television all their lives. They may even resent it if
they go to a film that has subtitles, or that has any kind of complexity.''
To read more about Pauline Kael, Pauline Kael
Great Pauline Kael Quotes
From her essay ``Trash, Art and the Movies,'' 1969: ``A good movie can take you
out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping
into a theater; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not
just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in
possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone
has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn't
all corruption. The movie doesn't have to be great; it can be stupid and empty
and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good
line.''
~~
On '60s Westerns such as ``The War Wagon'' 1967: ``What makes it a `Western' is
no longer the wide open spaces, but the presence of men like John Wayne, James
Stewart, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, and Burt Lancaster,
grinning with their big new choppers, sucking their guts up into their chests,
and hauling themselves onto horses. They are the heroes of a new Western
mythology: stars who have aged in the business, who have survived and who go on
dragging their world-famous, expensive carcasses through the same old motions.''
~~
On ``Top Gun,'' 1986: ``What is this commercial selling? It's just selling,
because that's what the producers, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and the
director, Tony (Make It Glow) Scott, know how to do. Selling is what they
thing moviemaking is about. ... `Top Gun' is a recruiting poster that isn't
concerned with recruiting but with being a poster.''
~~
On ``Dances with Wolves,'' 1990: ``This is a nature-boy movie, a kid's daydream
of being an Indian. When Dunbar has become a Sioux named Dances with Wolves, he
writes in his journal that he knows for the first time who he really is.
(Actor-director Kevin) Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his
head.''
To read more, Kael Quotes
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
