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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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But Untrue
Strangely Believable
Today's Fact: 01/03/05
The White House recently backed down from a proposed plan to horsewhip troublesome children after several Republican senators expressed concern about the measure.
~Jeff Crook
Jeff Crook is the Ceci Connolly of the Left - J. Howard Tuft
Strangely Believable but Untrue is now available online at the Untrue Fact of the Day web calendar. Help spread disinformation and misunderstanding by sharing this with your friends and enemies.
A casual stroll through a mental asylum shows that faith proves nothing. --- Friedrich Nietzche
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STATUE STANDING STILL
BEWARE THE HUNGRY LOOKERS
EATING THE ASS OF ART
Zen Man
(in Madrid)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Stopping the Bum's Rush
(Click on "Columns," then on "Stopping the Bum's Rush")
The people who hustled America into a tax cut to eliminate an imaginary budget surplus and a war to eliminate imaginary weapons are now trying another bum's rush. If they succeed, we will do nothing about the real fiscal threat and will instead dismantle Social Security, a program that is in much better financial shape than the rest of the federal government. In the next few weeks, I'll explain why privatization will fatally undermine Social Security, and suggest steps to strengthen the program. I'll also talk about the much more urgent fiscal problems the administration hopes you won't notice while it scares you about Social Security.
Jonathan Weisman and Mike Allen: Bush Plan Likely to Cut Initial Benefits
The Bush administration has signaled that it will propose changing the formula that sets initial Social Security benefit levels, cutting promised benefits by nearly a third in the coming decades, according to several Republicans close to the White House.
Turkish Press: Iraq battling more than 200,000 insurgents: intelligence chief
BAGHDAD, Jan 3 (AFP) - Iraq's insurgency counts more than 200,000 active fighters and sympathisers, the country's national intelligence chief told AFP, in the bleakest assessment to date of the armed revolt waged by Sunni Muslims. "I think the resistance is bigger than the US military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000 people," Iraqi intelligence service director General Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani said in an interview ahead of the January 30 elections.
BBC: Supervolcanoes
Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
BBC: Expert slams wave threat inertia
New York, Washington DC, Boston and Miami would be almost wiped out by the tsunami generated by the insecure rock falling into the Atlantic.
ROGER EBERT: The Red Shoes (1948)
There is tension between two kinds of stories in "The Red Shoes," and that tension helps make it the most popular movie ever made about the ballet and one of the most enigmatic movies about anything. One story could be a Hollywood musical: A young ballerina falls in love with the composer of the ballet that makes her an overnight star. The other story is darker and more guarded. It involves the impresario who runs the ballet company, who demands loyalty and obedience, who is enraged when the young people get married. The motives of the ballerina and her lover are transparent. But the impresario defies analysis. In his dark eyes we read a fierce resentment. No, it is not jealousy, at least not romantic jealousy. Nothing as simple as that.
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Catwoman'
Purple Genes' review of the movie "
Catwoman" (2004) directed by
Pitof and starring
Halle Berry:
I can't help but remember
Halle Berrys' Academy Award acceptance speech for her role as Leticia in "
Monsters Ball" (2001).....dripping with drama and delirious with the Honor of "Best Actress", Halle went on and on about how she hoped this award and the Golden Globe award for her role as
Dorothy Dandridge would help open doors for other black female actors to get good roles.........well, Halle went on to take her next great role as a black female actor by playing Jinx Johnson in the 2002 James Bond thriller "
Die Another Day"......followed by another great role for a black female actor as Storm in the 2003 Sci-Fi action thriller "
X-Man 2"......Now I just saw her in her great role as a black female actor as Patience in the 2004 action crime fantasy "
Catwoman"........but wait ...she's not through taking on great new roles for a black female actor.....this year (2005)...guess what?????? we're gonna see Halle Berry as....."
Foxy Brown"......
My gawd....this "great" black female actor, Miss
Halle Berry, has descended into a cesspool of pathetic parts that do nothing but demean and diminish any kind of actor.....and dammit.....how dare she try to steal
Pam Griers' really great black female actor role of "
Foxy Brown"....how dare she steal
Eartha Kitts' thunder as a really great black female actor in the 1967 TV
Batman role of "Catwoman # 2" (Funny Feline Felonies)......and to add injury to insults....What about
Tara Satanas' role as Varla in
Russ Meyer's 1965 action crime comedy "
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"......"what a bunch of bullshit, Halle!!!!"....You took these roles created just for a great black female actors for the MONEY!!!!!! I saw your name on the credits for "
Foxy Brown" as executive producer....big fuckin' money!!!!! Here's your acceptance speech for the WORST acting job as a black female actor in 2004 for your role in "
Catwoman"......."I want to thank the academy for recognizing what I have done for so many black women in my profession.......put them back doing "Aunt Jemima" roles!!!!!!!
I'm really sorry for ranting about Halles' new movie "
Catwoman" ...maybe I had Jet Lag (I saw it on Delta flight 90 at 4 am)....maybe it was the small screen and the cheap headphones.....no...it was a worse than that ...."
Catwoman" is CAT SHIT!!!!!
Graphic artist Patience Phillips is working overtime for a cosmetics company (Hedare) about to flood the anti-aging market with a new CREAM......funny little cat walks onto Patiences' balcony with a mesmerizing MEOW.....Patience follows kitty out to the ledge and falls off but is some how rescued by a handsome cop played by
Benjamin Bratt (remember that kitty).......well some one dies at the Cosmetic Company because they discovered that the anti-aging cream is addictive, disfiguring and dangerous....unless you just kept putting more of it on.....enter Laura Hedare (
Sharon Stone) bitch ass wife of George Hedare (
Lambert Wilson) powerful prick prig CEO of the BAD Cosmetic Company who is the real villainess....she hates her husband but likes his money. Patience sneaks around the cosmetic plant one night and falls into some chemicals and gets flushed down the sewer...end of story?????? no!!
Remember that kitty???..out of the waste that little kitty kisses a half dead Patience back to life....enter CATWOMAN....fucking STUPID!!!!!!!
Even Ophelia (
Frances Conroy from HBOs' "
6 Feet Under") as an odd Egyptophilic sage can't save this mess of a movie.......(I was laughing out loud on my plane ride, headphones on, with people giving me strange stares...who cares) ....It all comes down to guess what --- a CATFIGHT ! Halle kicks Sharon Stones' ASS and ends up with Benjamin Bratt......Worst movie of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Purple Gene gives "
Catwoman" 1 big cat turd out of 10 for stinking so bad and setting roles for black women in hollywood back 50 years!!!!!
Purple Gene
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another rainy day.
My young cousin Keith is visiting dear old dad back in PA this week.
His last visit was 20 years ago, when he wasn't quite a year old.
That occasion was my great-grandmother's 100th birthday, and Keith was the 5th generation.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with
'60 Minutes', followed by a
FRESH 'King Of Queens', then a
FRESH 'Center Of The Universe', followed by a
FRESH 'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Dave are Kiefer Sutherland, Marv Albert, and Black Keys.
Scheduled on a
FRESH 'Craiggers' are Julian McMahon and Howie Day.
NBC opens the night with the
SERIES PREMIERE of
'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search', followed by a
FRESH 'Wet Wing', then a
FRESH 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Leno are Patricia Arquette, Jeff Gordon, and Brian Wilson.
On a
RERUN Conan (from 12/14/04) are Kevin Spacey, Billy Connolly, and Skindred.
On a
RERUN Carson Daly is TBA.
ABC begins the night with a
FRESH 'Lost', followed by the 2-hour
SEASON PREMIERE of
'Alias'.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Simon Pegg, Matt Leinhart, and Todd Glass.
The
WB offers a
RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a
FRESH 'Big Man On Campus'.
Faux has a
FRESH 'That 70s Show', followed by a
FRESH 'Quintuplets', then a
FRESH 'Nanny 911'.
UPN has the
SERIES PREMIERE of
'The Road To Stardom With Missy Elliott', followed by a
FRESH 'Kevin Hill'.
A&E has
'American Justice', another
'American Justice',
'Keepers: A Job Behind Bars', and
'Biography' (Ken Jennings).
AMC offers the movie
'The War Of The Worlds' (Gene Barry version), followed by the movie
'Mad Max', then the movie
'Force 10 From Navarone'.
BBC -
[2pm]
'As Time Goes By' - Episode 9;
[2:40pm]
'Are You Being Served?' - Wedding Bells;
[3:20pm]
'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[4pm]
'The Saint' - The Better Mousetrap;
[5pm]
'The Weakest Link' - Episode 19;
[6pm]
'BBC World News';
[6:30pm]
'Cash in the Attic' - Morris;
[7pm]
'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 6;
[7:30pm]
'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 8;
[8pm]
'My Family' - Absent Vixen;
[8:40pm]
'Worst Week of My Life' - Episode 1;
[9:20pm]
'Coupling' - Dressed;
[10pm]
'Kumars at No. 42' - Donny Osmond;
[10:40pm]
'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 1;
[11pm]
'My Family' - Absent Vixen;
[11:40pm]
'Worst Week of My Life' - Episode 1;
[12:20am]
'Coupling' - Dressed;
[1am]
'Kumars at No. 42' - Donny Osmond;
[1:40am]
'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 1;
[2am]
'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 6;
[2:30am]
'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 8;
[3am]
'My Family' - Absent Vixen;
[3:40am]
'Worst Week of My Life' - Episode 1;
[4:20am]
'Coupling' - Dressed;
[5am]
'Kumars at No. 42' - Donny Osmond;
[5:40am]
'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 1;
[6am]
'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has
'West Wing',
'Project Runway', another
'Project Runway', and
'Queer Eye'.
Comedy Central has
'MAD TV',
'Reno 911!',
'Crank Yankers',
'South Park', another
'South Park', and
'Drawn Together'.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Jon Stewart is
Don Cheadle.
History has
'Modern Marvels', another
'Modern Marvels', followed by a
FRESH 'Full Throttle', and another
'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM]
'Glengarry Glen Ross' (1992);
[7:30AM]
'At The Angelika #92' (2004);
[8AM]
'The Tango Lesson' (1997);
[9:45AM]
Short: 'Bean Cake';
[10AM]
'Buena Vista Social Club' (1999);
[11:45AM]
'At The Angelika #92' (2004);
[12:15PM]
'Dinner Rush' (2000);
[2PM]
'IFC In Theaters' (2004);
[2:15PM]
'The Tango Lesson' (1997);
[4PM]
'The Ultimate Film Fanatic Audition' Show Season 2 (2004);
[4:30PM]
'An Angel At My Table' (1990);
[7:15PM]
'The Broken Hearts Club' (2000);
[9PM]
'Monsoon Wedding' (2001);
[11PM]
'Damage' (1992);
[1AM]
'Monsoon Wedding' (2001);
[3AM]
'The Ultimate Film Fanatic Audition Show' Season 2 (2004);
[3:30AM]
'Little Odessa' (1994);
[5:15AM]
'Running With The Bulls' (2003). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie
'Event Horizon', followed by the movie
'Freejack'.
Sundance -
[7AM]
'Derrida' (Documentary);
[8:25AM]
'What Happened Was...' (Feature);
[10AM]
'Trembling Before G-d' (Documentary);
[11:30AM]
'Palookaville' (Feature);
[1:05PM]
'Paradox Lake' (Feature);
[2:30PM]
'Derrida' (Documentary);
[4PM]
Anatomy Of A Scene: The Cooler' (Original Production);
[4:25PM]
'What Happened Was...' (Feature);
[6PM]
'Trembling Before G-d' (Documentary);
[7:30PM]
'Dopamine' (Feature);
[9PM]
'The Opposite of Sex' (Feature);
[10:45PM]
'D.E.B.S.' (Short);
[11PM]
'Bark' (Feature);
[12:45AM]
'Neo-Noir' (Short);
[1AM]
'Prey for Rock & Roll' (Feature);
[2:45AM]
'Careful' (World Cinema);
[4:30AM]
'Anatomy Of A Scene: The United States of Leland' (Original Production);
[5:30AM]
'Mullitt' (Feature);
[5:55AM]
'Good Night Valentino' (Short). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6:30am]
'The Bandit Trail' (1941);
[7:45am]
'Riding the Wind' (1942);
[9am]
'Colorado Territory' (1949);
[11am]
'The Westerner' (1940);
[1pm]
'The Outlaw' (1943);
[3pm]
'Duel In The Sun' (1946);
[5:30pm]
'Red River' (1948);
[8pm]
'Bataan' (1943);
[10pm]
'So Proudly We Hail' (1943);
[12:15am]
'Appointment in Tokyo' (1946);
[1:15am]
'The Story of G.I. Joe' (1945);
[3:15am]
'Air Force' (1943);
[5:30am]
'Winning Your Wings' (1942). (ALL TIMES EST)
Thursday - 01/06
TCM:
[6am]
'First Motion Picture Unit' (1943) [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] ;
[6:30am]
'Recognition of the Japanese Zero' (2003) [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] ;
[7am]
'Resisting Enemy Interrogation' (1944);
[8:15am]
'She Had To Say Yes' (1933);
[9:30am]
'Midnight Mary' (1933);
[11am]
'The Unguarded Hour' (1936);
[12:30pm]
'The Stranger' (1946);
[2:30pm]
'The Farmer's Daughter' (1947);
[4:30pm]
'Rachel And The Stranger' (1948);
[6pm]
'Key To The City' (1950);
[8pm]
'King Kong' (1933);
[10pm]
'Romeo And Juliet' (1936);
[12:30am]
'Sparrows' (1926) SILENT ;
[2am]
'Love Finds Andy Hardy' (1938);
[3:45am]
'Love Crazy' (1941);
[5:30am]
'Cartoon Alley #3' (2005). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Playwright Edward Albee, left, appears with actress Kathleen Turner, center, and actor Bill Irwin moments before a news conference, in Boston, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005, held to answer questions about their new upcoming production of Albee's play 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' The play is to open in Boston at the Wilbur Theatre Feb. 10 and play through March 6, 2005.
Photo by Steven Senne
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Citadel Radio Drops
Howard Stern
Citadel Broadcasting Corp yanked Howard Stern from
four stations this week and may never resume the show due to tensions over the controversial radio host's tendency to tout his upcoming move to satellite radio.
Stern had taken a two-week vacation break, but listeners were surprised when the show did not resume on Jan. 3
Citadel promised to keep its listeners advised as to whether or when Stern returns.
Ironically, Citadel's Syracuse rock station WAQX-FM had reached a deal with Sirius' rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings to run the controversial "Opie & Anthony" show with heavy editing as an alternative during Stern's two-week break.
Howard Stern
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Headlining Benefit Concert
Willie Nelson
Country singer Willie Nelson will headline a benefit concert to help the relief effort for victims of the tsunamis in southern Asia and eastern Africa. "I started at the top," said musician Michael Hall of his first call to build a lineup, "and when Willie said, 'Count me in,' I knew we were off and running."
The Tsunami Relief Austin to South Asia concert will be held Sunday night at the Austin Music Hall. Patty Griffin, Spoon, Joe Ely, Alejandro Escovedo, Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis and the Geezinslaws also are among those scheduled to perform.
All the acts are donating their talents. Proceeds of ticket sales for the concert at the 3,000-capacity Music Hall will go to the American Red Cross, UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders.
Willie Nelson
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New Host For 'Now'
David Brancaccio
There are changes afoot as PBS' "Now" begins its new season.
Most notably, its changing of the guard: Bill Moyers retired at age 70 last month from the weekly newsmagazine he founded three years ago.
But David Brancaccio, his former co-host and designated successor, is sticking with the fundamentals.
"Now" has stayed true to its journalistic ideal - afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted - by pursuing stories that were too complex, sensitive or off the beaten path to engage most other newscasts. (A prime example: media consolidation, an ongoing story "Now" had virtually to itself even as hundreds of thousands of Americans protested the easing of ownership limits for Big Media by the Federal Communications Commission)
But its 2.5 million viewers will also find differences Friday. Formerly an hour, "Now" henceforth is a compact 30 minutes because of
budget limitations.
David Brancaccio
'Now' is totally self-sustaining, so to blame it's time cut on 'budget limitations' seems specious at best.
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The artist known as Christo(R) and his wife Jeanne-Claude(L) are interviewed in Central Park where his latest project called 'The Gates' is under construction in New York, January 4, 2005. Central Park will be transformed with billowing fabric hung across its footpaths which pedestrians will walk under.
Photo by Chip East
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Added to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
George Harrison
Beatles guitarist George Harrison, actor Nigel Hawthorne and Harry Secombe, one of the stars of "The Goon Show," have been added to the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography," Britain's definitive record of the great and the good.
American-born harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler is among the 31 new entrants from outside Britain.
Other new biographies include Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
George Harrison
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Lifetime Achievement Awards
Grammy Honorees
Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Jerry Lee Lewis will receive lifetime achievement awards at this year's Grammy Awards, organizers said Tuesday.
Also receiving plaques from the Recording Academy will be Eddy Arnold, Art Blakey, the original Carter Family, Morton Gould, Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Perkins and the Staple Singers.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Feb. 12, the day before the 47th annual Grammys are handed out at Staples Center.
Also at the Feb. 12 event, late songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, "Soul Train" founder Don Cornelius, late Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion, and pianist Dr. Billy Taylor will receive Trustees Awards, which go to non-performers. Additionally, Grammy-winning producer Phil Ramone and speaker maker JBL Professional will receive Technical Grammy awards.
Grammy Honorees
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5 More Episodes Ordered
'House'
Fox is betting on "House" for the rest of the season.
The network has ordered five additional episodes of the critically praised drama starring Hugh Laurie ("Blackadder") as a disheveled physician with an apparent distaste for his patients. The first-season tally now stands at 18 episodes.
'House'
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More 'D-List' For Bravo
Kathy Griffin
Bravo has ordered six hourlong episodes of the reality series "Kathy Griffin: Life on the D-List."
Originally aired as a special on the cable channel last year, "List" features comedian Griffin with a mix of stand-up material and behind-the-scenes footage of her efforts to further her career in show business.
Kathy Griffin
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The 'Tiki Truck,' a converted Ford F-250, is one of the many non-traditonal luxury cars that will be featured at the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show opening January 7, 2005 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The truck features a waterfall that drops into a jacuzzi, portable barbeque and a frozen drink machine all hidden by a teakwood deck cover. The auto show is open until January 16.
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Ill With Viral Infection
Jennifer Garner
Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Garner is ill with a viral infection, forcing her to reschedule promotion of her new movie "Elektra."
Publicist Nicole King said Tuesday the "Alias" star isn't hospitalized and is resting at home in Los Angeles.
"Alias" returns for its fourth season with a two-hour special Wednesday.
Jennifer Garner
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Ratings Dud
'Who's Your Daddy?'
Television viewers gave a collective shrug to Fox's attempt to turn a daughter's search for her birth father into a game show.
"Who's Your Daddy?" was seen by 6.3 million viewers Monday, fourth in its time slot, according to Nielsen Media Research. The Fox special starred a woman who picked her birth father from a group of seven impostors for a $100,000 prize.
'Who's Your Daddy?'
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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3 Doors Down, Macy Gray
Inaugural Performers
With the Jan. 20 inauguration of resident Bush, visitors to the capital won't be able to swing a cat next week without hitting a ball or party.
The Jan. 20 RIAA bash at the upscale H20 club will be slanted toward a young crowd, with a set by Mississippi-based rock band 3 Doors Down.
The Creative Coalition's event, also Jan. 20, is called The Ball After the Balls. Macy Gray is the musical headliner. Tickets are also $1,000.
While the RIAA and Creative Coalition bashes will likely be cowboy-hat-free, the Black Tie and Boots Ball, a non-official jamboree put on Jan. 19 by the Texas State Society of Washington, D.C., will be Lone Star State-intensive. It is also the hottest ticket in town.
A sampling of the event's talent lineup (on seven stages) includes 2001 inauguration vets Lyle Lovett and Asleep at the Wheel, as well as Clay Walker, Robert Earl Keen, Neal McCoy, the Derailers, the Gourds,
Del Castillo and Yolanda Adams.
Inaugural Performers
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In this undated photo released by the Anthropological Survey of India a portrait of a Jarawa tribe boy, one of the five tribes in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. Government officials and anthropologists believe that ancient knowledge of the movement of wind, sea and birds may have saved the five indigenous tribes on the Indian archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar islands from the tsunami that hit the Asian coastline Dec. 26. According to varying estimates, there are only about 400 to 1,000 members alive today from the Great Andamanese, Onges, Jarawas, Sentinelese and Shompens. Some anthropological DNA studies indicate the generations may have spanned back 70,000 years.
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Auction Income to Help Tsunami Victims
Barry Bonds
The San Francisco Giants will auction off a meeting with controversial baseball slugger Barry Bonds to help victims of the Asian tsunami, the team announced on Tuesday.
The auction at the
www.sfgiants.com Web site will offer the winner and three friends the chance to meet the seven-time most valuable player during the 2005 season in the Giants dugout.
The Giants are also auctioning off for tsunami relief the right to throw out the first pitch of the season opener -- an honor that fell to Mayor Gavin Newsom last year -- and several other baseball opportunities they called "once-in-a-lifetime experiences."
The on-line auction ends on Friday.
Barry Bonds
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Site Dubbed Famed Stuntman 'Pimp'
Evel Knievel
Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel cannot sue a Web site that published a photo of him with two women above a caption reading "You're never too old to be a pimp," a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
The term "pimp" was probably intended as a compliment, the court said. But Knievel said, "What good is law in the United States of America if five or six goddamn bimbos are going to rule against it?"
The Montana native sued after ESPN, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Co., published a photo of the famed stunt driver at the Action Sports and Music Awards in 2001 with his arms around his wife and a second young woman.
Evel Knievel
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A man walks his dogs under a red sky in the afternoon hours on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005 in Frankfurt, central Germany.
Photo by Michael Probst
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Pilots Get Call from NBC, WB
Jerry Bruckheimer
In a flurry of pilot activity Monday, producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("CSI") received two drama pilot pickups -- one at NBC for the defense-themed project "E-Ring" and one at the WB Network for an untitled show about a 17-year-old lawyer.
"E-Ring," described as "The West Wing" set at the Pentagon, was created by David McKenna and Ken Robinson, a former Green Beret who consults for CNN on terrorism and military intelligence. McKenna penned the pilot script.
The untitled drama, written and executive produced by Jonathan Shapiro, is said to be in the vein of "Doogie Howser, M.D." It centers on the relationship between the prodigy and his mentor.
Jerry Bruckheimer
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A skier on Teton Pass near Jackson, Wyo., makes tracks Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, in some of the nearly 40 inches of powder that have fallen in the area over the new year's weekend.
Photo by Angus M. Thuermer, Jr.
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Fires Five In Killing Of Cat
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart has fired five employees in the killing of a cat on store property.
The Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Department says the men repeatedly shot the cat with a pellet gun after a manager told them to get rid of the animal which had been living in a storage trailer behind the store.
Wal-Mart says it plans to donate $10,000 to two Evansville-area animal shelters.
Wal-Mart
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Consumers Union Reveals Best Brands
Condom Testing
The nonprofit Consumers Union says in a new guide to contraception that the seven top U.S. types of condom they studied did not burst despite vigorous testing, and all models met international standards.
But results showed that the top brand, able to take the most punishment, was the Durex Extra Sensitive Lubricated Latex, according to the report.
A melon-colored model distributed by Planned Parenthood performed the worst, bursting during a test in which the latex condoms were filled with air.
For more,
Condom Testing
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In Memory
Will Eisner
Will Eisner, comic-book innovator and creator of the modern graphic novel, died Monday in Florida following quadruple bypass heart surgery. He was 87.
A talented artist and writer, Mr. Eisner was best known for "The Spirit," which followed the exploits of a masked detective on worldwide adventures. In 1978, Mr. Eisner published "A Contract With God," the first comic to appear in novel form. He continued until his death to be a prolific creator and educator. For his contributions to the comic-book medium, the industry named its annual accolades The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in 1987.
"Will Eisner was our Orson Welles," said Neil Gaiman, author of comic-book series "The Sandman" and the Hugo Award-winning novel "American Gods."
Born in 1917 to Jewish immigrants living in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Eisner began publishing in his high-school newspaper at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. His first comic strip appeared in 1936's "WOW What a Magazine!"
Soon after, Mr. Eisner founded Eisner-Iger studio with friend Samuel "Jerry" Iger. In 1939, Eisner joined the Quality Comics Group, creating "The Spirit" for a Sunday newspaper comic insert that ran from 1940 to 1952. At its peak, "The Spirit" appeared in 20 newspapers reaching 5 million readers, according to comic-book publisher DC Comics.
Comic book luminaries such as Batman creator Bob Kane, Jack Kirby ("Fantastic Four," "X-Men"), Jack Cole ("Plastic Man") and many others worked in Eisner's studio. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who worked under Mr. Eisner from 1946 to 1951, called him "mentor to many young artists coming up in the field."
In addition to graphic novels - including "The Dreamer," "The Building" and "Invisible People" - Mr. Eisner also wrote two influential books on the medium: "Comics and Sequential Art" and "Graphic Storytelling."
Mr. Eisner taught cartooning at the School of Visual Arts in New York and received multiple awards, including the 1995 Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award and the 1998 Reuben Award as cartoonist of the year from the National Cartoonists Society.
DC Comics is currently reprinting Mr. Eisner's "The Spirit" in a series of 200-odd page collections, "The Spirit Archives." The 15th of 24 projected volumes was published last year. In May 2005, W.W. Norton & Company will publish Eisner's "The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
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Will Eisner, a master of American comics and a pioneer of the graphic novel who gave his name to the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars, has died at age 87, his publisher said on Tuesday.
Dubbed "The Leonardo of the Comic Book," Eisner once said he aspired to be a "social reporter."
His most famous character was "The Spirit," a masked crime fighter who protected the innocent in Central City using his guile and his fists. The comic strip ran in Sunday newspapers from 1940 until 1952.
Eisner was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942 and helped produced posters to entertain the troops. He also created the bumbling comic character of Joe Dope as part of an educational series on topics such as jeep maintenance.
Eisner taught cartooning at the School of Visual Arts in New York and was the author of two textbooks on the art of comics and graphic storytelling.
He described many of his books as polemics, including the recent "Fagin the Jew" which retells the biography of the character from Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" by challenging the inherent anti-Semitism in the story.
Robert Weil, executive editor at publisher W.W. Norton & Co., said Eisner was "the master of American 20th century comics" who with his "genius for storytelling and visual brilliance ... created a new form of literature" that inspired other artists such as Art Spiegelman and R. Crumb.
Eisner's last book, to be published by Norton in May, is "The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." It focuses on anti-Semitic propaganda created by Russia's secret police a century ago, purported to be a blueprint written by Jewish leaders for taking over the world.
The Italian writer Umberto Eco just last week completed an introduction to the book that Eisner considered his most important project.
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Will Eisner started making comics in the 1930s and was the first to use balloonless panels to emphasize characters' emotions by focusing attention on finely wrought facial expressions.
He addressed subjects considered unthinkable in comic books and rarely seen at the time in newspaper comics: spousal abuse, tax audits, urban blight and graft.
Eisner's first graphic novel, "A Contract with God," was published in 1978 and included stories of his childhood and the immigrant Jewish experience in a poor Brooklyn tenement. The genre combines elements of comic books and literary novels.
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Rescuers seen near one of the two Indo-Pacific Humpback dolphins trapped in a lake in Khao Lak, north of Phuket, January 4, 2005. Rescuers failed for a second day to save the two dolphins on Tuesday after a local official and environmentalists argued about how best to save the mammals swept inland by the giant waves.
Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom
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