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Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Ozzy Osbourne.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', yet another 'Modern Marvels', and 'Full Throttle'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'The End Of The Affair' (1999);
[8AM] 'Me You Them' (2000);
[10AM] 'Delicatessen' (1991);
[11:45AM] Short: 'Red' (2001);
[12PM] 'Jefferson In Paris' (1995);
[2:30PM] 'Me You Them' (2000);
[4:30PM] 'In Bad Taste: The John Waters Story' (1998);
[6PM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[6:30PM] 'Jefferson In Paris' (1995);
[9PM] 'The Straight Story' (1999);
[11PM] 'The Truce' ('La Tregua') (1997);
[1AM] 'The Straight Story' (1999);
[3AM] 'The Truce' ('La Tregua') (1997);
[5AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase'. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has all 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not!' all night.
Sundance -
[7:30AM] 'Gotham Fish Tales' (Documentary);
[8:45AM] 'The Last Kiss' (Feature);
[10:45AM] 'Black Box Germany' (Feature);
[12:30PM] 'Veils Uncovered' (Documentary);
[1PM] 'Rick' (Feature);
[2:35PM] 'Fairy Faith' (Feature);
[4PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: The Door in the Floor' (Original Production);
[4:30PM] 'Shorts Program 113' (Short);
[5:30PM] 'Gotham Fish Tales' (Documentary);
[6:45PM] 'Je T'aime John Wayne' (Feature);
[7PM] 'The Last Kiss' (Feature);
[9PM] 'Seeing Other People' (Feature);
[10:30PM] 'Barrier Device' (Short);
[11PM] 'Rick' (Feature);
[12:35AM] 'Betty' (Feature);
[2:15AM] 'Habit' (Feature);
[4:10AM] 'Seeing Other People' (Feature);
[5:40AM] 'Fairy Faith' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM spends the morning & afternoon celebrating
Joan Crawford (who would have been 101 today), then
features 5 films with
Cary Grant most of the night.
[6am] 'Dance, Fools, Dance' (1931);
[7:30am] 'Grand Hotel' (1932);
[9:30am] 'The Last Of Mrs. Cheyney' (1937);
[11:15am] 'The Women' (1939);
[1:30pm] 'Mildred Pierce' (1945);
[3:30pm] 'Humoresque' (1946);
[6pm] 'Possessed' (1947);
[8pm] 'The Philadelphia Story' (1940);
[10pm] 'Cary Grant: A Class Apart' (2004);
[11:30pm] 'Monkey Business' (1952);
[1:15am] 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938);
[3am] 'Walk, Don't Run' (1966);
[5am] 'Don't Bet On Blondes' (1935). (ALL TIMES EST)
Thursday - 03/24
TCM: spends the afternoon celebrating what would have been
Steve McQueen's 75th birthday.
[6am] 'The Fred Astaire Songbook' (1991);
[7:15am] 'You'll Never Get Rich' (1941);
[8:45am] 'Escape Me Never' (1947);
[10:30am] 'Never Let Me Go' (1953);
[12:30pm] 'Never So Few' (1959);
[3pm] 'Hell is for Heroes' (1962);
[4:30pm] 'The Honeymoon Machine' (1961);
[6pm] 'The Cincinnati Kid' (1965);
[8pm] 'The Odessa File' (1974);
[10:15pm] 'The Ipcress File' (1965);
[12:15am] 'The Day Of The Jackal' (1973);
[2:45am] 'Suddenly' (1954);
[4:15am] 'Notorious' (1946). (ALL TIMES EST)
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Greenpeace delays the docking of the timber carrier Skyman in the Port of Leixoes near Porto in Portugal March 22, 2005. Inflatables launched from the Greenpeace ship The Arctic Sunrise were kept away from the vessel by harbour police, allowing the Skyman to unload it's cargo of timber from companies involved in illegal logging in Brazil.This protest exposes Portugal's role as a European gateway for illegal timber from the world's ancient forests. Portugal is the 5th largest importer of timber from the Brazilian Amazon.
Photo by Nick Cobbing
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In HST's Will
'Gonzo Trust'
In a nod to the first-person form of journalism he popularized, Hunter S. Thompson's will calls for all his property to flow into "The Gonzo Trust" to be managed by three people the writer knew for years.
The will, dated June 27, 2003, was filed in state court Feb. 23, three days after the 67-year-old writer took his own life at his home in Woody Creek, near Aspen. It was made public Monday.
Trustees are attorneys Hal Haddon of Denver and George Tobia of Boston, and historian Douglas Brinkley of New Orleans.
Tobia said the trustees would inventory the estate during the next several months. Brinkley said he was appointed literary executor to manage Thompson's writings and book contracts and find a home for his archives.
'Gonzo Trust'
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Told to Pay Rival Promoter
Clear Channel
A federal jury on Monday ordered Clear Channel Communications Inc. to pay a rival promoter $90 million for engaging in anticompetitive behavior to land a deal to promote motorcycle races.
Chicago-based Jam Productions Ltd. had accused Clear Channel of illegally using its entertainment industry might to scuttle Jam's bid to promote Supercross dirt-track motorcycle racing at arenas across the country.
Jurors ruled that while Clear Channel did not violate antitrust laws, the company had intentionally interfered with Jam's contract and its business relationship with the American Motorcycle Association. They ordered Clear Channel to pay $17 million in lost profits and $73 million in punitive damages.
Clear Channel
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Traffic moves slowly along the 101 Freeway Tuesday evening, March 22, 2005, in the Encino section of Los Angeles. A new storm dropped enough rain Tuesday to make the current season the second-wettest on record in downtown Los Angeles, the National Weather Service said.
Photo by Phil McCarten
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Portraits of U.S. War Dead
'Faces of the Fallen'
Art and fatherhood became intertwined when John R. Phelps volunteered to paint a portrait that would be included in a tribute to soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. His subject was his son.
Phelps' painting of Marine Pfc. Clarence Phelps is among 1,327 images of soldiers in an exhibit titled "Faces of the Fallen." It opens to the public Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery.
The images of the soldiers, each 6-by-8 inches, are mounted on plain steel rods that reach to near eye level. Each rod includes a label with the soldier's name, hometown and date of death.
Five rows are arranged chronologically by the soldiers' times of death and stretch along a half-circle inside the small museum at the entrance to the cemetery. The number of images does not represent all those killed - that figure now is more than 1,600.
The exhibit will be on display until Veterans Day.
'Faces of the Fallen'
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Ordered to Sell TV Station
Tribune Co
A federal judge has ordered Tribune Co., a Chicago-based media company that owns The Hartford Courant, to sell its TV station WTXX in Waterbury, Conn. to comply with media ownership rules.
Tribune, which owns WTXX and WTIC-TV in Hartford, purchased The Courant from Times Mirror Publications in 2000.
The FCC ordered Tribune to sell WTXX, a WB affiliate, in 2001, but granted extensions that expired in August 2002. The company has asked for a permanent waiver of the cross-ownership rules, but said it has not received a reply.
Tribune Co
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Wants to Win Kentucky Derby
David Cassidy
David Cassidy isn't horsing around when he says his life's passion is to win the Kentucky Derby.
The 1970s teen idol has a contender in Mayan King, an undefeated 3-year-old who will run Saturday in the Lane's End Stakes at Kentucky's Turfway Park. Cassidy co-owns the horse with several partners.
Cassidy, 54, has bred thoroughbreds since the 1970s, when he rose to stardom playing Keith Partridge on "The Partridge Family." He has used a different name because he didn't want to draw attention to his celebrity.
David Cassidy
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Penitents march during Holy Week procession of the 'Virgen Dolorosa' brotherhood in Palma de Mallorca, late March 21, 2005. Hundreds of Easter processions take place throughout Spain during Holy Week around the clock, drawing thousands of visitors.
Photo by Dani Cardona
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Heading Publishing Imprint
Mary Matalin
Mary Matalin, the Republican pundit and strategist also known as the wife/sparring partner of Democratic consultant James Carville, will run a new conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster.
"It's the absolute nexus of what I love to do," Matalin told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I think we're on the threshold of a whole new way of looking at politics and policy and there's something vital about getting those ideas down in book form."
The imprint, currently unnamed, is expected to release six to 10 books a year, beginning in 2006.
Mary Matalin
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Gets Probation
Tracey Gold
Former "Growing Pains" actress Tracey Gold was placed on three years' probation after she pleaded guilty to a second felony drunken driving charge in a rollover crash that injured her husband and two of their three children.
On Monday, a Superior Court judge decided to reduce the charge to a misdemeanor, but Deputy District Attorney Jeff Gorrell objected and said an earlier plea bargain was off and he wouldn't drop the child-endangerment charges against Marshall.
To avoid those charges, she pleaded guilty to the second felony drunken-driving charge.
Judge Bruce Clark then placed Marshall on three years' probation, ordered her to complete 30 days of work release supervised by the jail and 240 hours of community service.
Tracey Gold
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An Indian artist dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna (C) is showered with rose petals during a celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colours, in the northern Indian city of Mathura March 21, 2005. Coloured dust and water is extensively used in the religious Holi festival, which heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over India. Picture taken on March 21, 2005.
Photo by Brijesh Singh
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Exiled Iraqi Musician
Rahim AlHaj
For Rahim AlHaj, noted Iraqi oud player, it was an impossible choice: Abandon a beloved instrument that had been his "best friend" since age 9 or risk another arrest by the Iraqi authorities.
Some 14 years ago, AlHaj stood at the Iraqi-Jordanian border for what seemed like an eternity before he realized there was no going back. Under Saddam Hussein's regime, he had already been imprisoned and tortured twice for political activism, and his mother had sold nearly everything to raise $20,000 for a false passport and safe passage to Jordan.
It was also the beginning of an odyssey that took AlHaj through nine years of exile in Jordan and Syria and ultimately landed him in Albuquerque, New Mexico, now home base between a growing number of performances around the country. He recently embarked on a tour through California.
Just five years ago, when AlHaj arrived in the U.S. Southwest as a political refugee, he was destitute and his hosts arranged for him to work at a local McDonald's to earn some money.
Instead he landed a job working nights as a security guard, where he was able to practice playing the oud, often called the grandfather of all string instruments, and learn English by studying a translation of a favorite Nietzsche book.
Rahim AlHaj
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Fox TV President Leaving
Gail Berman
Gail Berman, president of entertainment at the Fox Television network, is leaving to take an unspecified role at Paramount Pictures.
Berman would be the first high-profile hire of studio chief Brad Grey, who himself took the top spot at Paramount earlier this month.
Grey came to Paramount with extensive television experience. He had run the talent agency Brillstein-Grey Entertainment and produced films and television shows, most notably the HBO series "The Sopranos."
Gail Berman
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Vince Savidge, left, and Fred Eppley, fish while floating down the Susquehanna River near Selinsgrove, Pa., Tuesday, March 22, 2005, as they enjoy the 50-degree temperatures.
Photo by Carolyn Kaster
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Forgotten Text Dusted Off
Alexandre Dumas
A forgotten novel by Alexandre Dumas, author of 'The Three Musketeers', is set to go on sale in June after a scholar found the incomplete work buried among archives in France's national library.
Claude Schopp, an expert on Dumas' works, has spent 10 years touching up the story, entitled 'The Knight of Sainte-Hermine', which was rushed out in rough-and-ready serialised form in Dumas' final days but never published as a novel.
Dumas died in 1870 without completing the 900-page epic, extracts of which were published in serialised form in 1869 in a daily, 'Le Moniteur Universel'. The last chapter was unfinished and Schopp has added the final lines himself, in italics.
Alexandre Dumas
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Won't Settle
Sharon Bush
The former wife of President Bush's brother has rejected a proposed settlement of a slander lawsuit accusing her of spreading rumors that Neil Bush fathered a child out-of-wedlock.
Sharon Bush says paternity tests she ordered on the boy last year are unreliable. She claims the doctor who performed the test is unqualified, and that she hired a new DNA expert to review the original test.
The original results "are flawed and should be thrown out," Sharon Bush said in a statement released Tuesday by her publicist. "They do not demonstrate one way or the other who fathered the child."
Despite a letter to a judge from Andrews' lawyers announcing a proposed settlement Monday, Sharon Bush's legal team later filed papers saying the parties have "unsuccessfully attempted to settle this case" and are ready for trial in April.
Sharon Bush
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A dancer dressed in pre-colombian attire performs at the pyramids of San Andres Cholula, Mexico on Tuesday March 22, 2005 during the ongoing celebrations of the arrival of spring.
Photo by Joel Merino
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Day Early In Northern Hemisphere
Spring
Spring officially started a day ahead of schedule in the northern hemisphere, with the equinox occurring on Sunday rather than Monday, the Paris observatory said.
March 21 is generally held to be the date of the spring equinox -- or correspondingly the autumn equinox in the southern hemisphere -- but this year day and night were of equal length on Sunday, March 20.
The observatory said that since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the spring equinox can fall on either March 19, 20, or 21.
The last time it fell on March 19 was in 1796, and it is due to do so again in 2044.
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Prime-Time Nielsen
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for March 14-20. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (1) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 28.4 million viewers.
2. (3) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 24.7 million viewers.
3. (X) "Survivor: Palau," CBS, 18.4 million viewers.
4. (42) "House," Fox, 17.3 million viewers.
5. (16) "Cold Case," CBS, 17.3 million viewers.
6. (18) "60 Minutes," CBS, 16 million viewers.
7. (16) "Medium," NBC, 15.4 million viewers.
8. (9) "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 15.2 million viewers.
9. (11) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 15 million viewers.
10. (7) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 14.6 million viewers.
11. (4) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 13.3 million viewers.
12. (29) "The Amazing Race: 7," CBS, 12.7 million viewers.
13. (36) "The Simple Life 3," Fox, 12.6 million viewers.
14. (X) "CBS NCAA Basketball Championship" (Sunday) CBS, 12.5 million viewers.
15. (25) "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 12.4 million viewers.
16. (32) "Las Vegas," NBC, 12.1 million viewers.
17. (25) "24," Fox, 12.1 million viewers.
18. (22) "Law & Order," NBC, 12 million viewers.
19. (14) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 11.8 million viewers.
20. (18) "The Apprentice 3," NBC, 11.6 million viewers.
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An alligator rests on the banks of a lagoon behind the Hilton Head Preparatory School athletic field with a soccer ball, Monday, March 21, 2005 on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Joe Maffo, owner of Critter Management, a local company that handles nuisance alligators, said the ball wasnt harming the gator. Last year, Maffo removed five soccer balls from the mouths of alligators near Hilton Head Prep. Hell just spit it out when he gets tired of it, Maffo said. And several hours later Monday, thats what this gator did.
Photo by Jay Karr
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