'Best of TBH Politoons'
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Debuts Today
Air America Radio
Air America Radio will debut its
programming
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Tomorrow
from Mark
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Temperatures were closer to spring than August scorcher.
But, the kid's allergies are in over-drive. His eyes are puffy, his nose is crusty, his voice is scratchy & I'm getting cranky.
We have a new insurance plan, so I called the new doctor only to find out that there was a mistake somewhere along the line. The new doctor assigned to us doesn't take minors & only treats infectious diseases...WTF?
So, got to spend most of the day trying to get 'stuff' straightened out, while avoiding the WWJD clinic.
Told the insurance woman that doctors (& nurses) wearing WWJD bracelets do not inspire my confidence - that if I wanted a consultation with a carpenter I'd go to Home Depot.
She said that the kid mustn't really be sick, or I'd be grateful.
Round 2 starts 8am, Wednesday.
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', followed by a RERUN 'King Of Queens', then a
FRESH 'The Stones' (a comedy so funny it makes root-canal seem pleasurable), followed by '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Johnny Knoxville, 4-year-old geography whiz Sahr Singh, and the Walkmen.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Roseanne, "Survivor" evictee Ethan Zohn, and Greg Proops.
NBC begins the night with the weekly regurgitation - er, RERUN of the big 'hit' 'Trumps Adventure in Avarice', followed by a
FRESH 'West Wing', then a FRESH 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are David Arquette, "Apprentice" stars George Ross and Carolyn Kepcher, and Blue Man Group.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Minnie Driver, Chris Klein, and Usher.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Matthew Lillard, Elisabeth Rohm, and N.E.R.D.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a RERUN 'My Wife & Kids', then a
RERUN 'Extreme Makeover', followed by a FRESH 'Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Shannen Doherty and Kevin Hart.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by another RERUN 'Smallville'.
Faux has a FRESH 'That 70s Show', followed by a FRESH 'American Idol', then a FRESH
'The O.C.'.
UPN has a RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by another RERUN 'Enterprise'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Melissa Gilbert Boxleitner), another 'American Justice', and 'City Confidential'.
AMC offers the movie 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture', followed by the movie 'Barbarosa', then the movie 'Gun
Fight At The O.K. Corral'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Ollier;
[7pm] 'My Hero' - Baby Talk ;
[7:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Fashion;
[8:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[9pm] 'My Family' - Serpent's Tooth;
[9:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Fat;
[10:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[11pm] 'My Family' - Serpent's Tooth;
[11:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Fat;
[12:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[1am] 'My Hero' - Baby Talk;
[1:40am] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Fashion;
[2:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[3am] 'My Family' - Serpent's Tooth;
[3:40am] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Fat;
[4:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[5am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[5:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 2;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Queer Eye', 'Keen Eddie', and
another 'Keen Eddie'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Insomniac', 'South Park',
another 'South Park', then 'Chappelle's Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Uncle Karen Hughes.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Nature Tech', another 'Nature Tech', and more
'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[3:15PM] 'Brother From Another Planet' (1984);
[5:15PM] 'Lianna' (1983);
[7:15PM] 'Delicatessen' (1991);
[9PM] 'Menace II Society' (1993);
[10:45PM] 'Bread And Roses' (2001);
[12:45AM] 'Menace II Society' (1993);
[2:30AM] 'Female Trouble' (1975);
[4:10AM] 'Bread And Roses' (2001). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Child's Play', followed by the movie 'Child's Play 2'.
Sundance -
[3PM] 'Anonymously Yours' (Documentary);
[4:30PM] 'Sixteen Decisions' (Feature);
[5:30PM] 'The Way Home' (aka Jibeuro) (Feature);
[7PM] 'Shorts Program 96' (Short);
[8PM] 'Karmen Gei' (World Cinema);
[9:30PM] 'Genesis' (World Cinema);
[11:15PM] 'Our Father' (Feature);
[12:40AM] 'Captives' (World Cinema);
[2:20AM] 'The Isle' (Feature);
[3:55AM] 'The Designated Mourner' (Feature);
[5:30AM 'No Mess' (Short);
[5:45AM] 'The Parlor' (Short). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM has secrets all morning, pays tribute to Shirley Jones
(who celebrates her 70th birthday today) all afternoon, and then devotes all night to Charlie Chaplin.
[6:00 am] 'The Secret Heart' (1946);
[8am] 'The Secret Partner' (1961);
[10am] 'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty' (1947);
[12pm] 'The Secret Of My Success' (1965);
[2pm] 'A Ticklish Affair' (1963);
[3:30pm] 'The Courtship Of Eddie's Father' (1963);
[5:30pm] 'Oklahoma!' (1955);
[8pm] 'Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux' (2003);
[8:30pm] 'Monsieur Verdoux' (1947);
[10:30pm] 'Chaplin Today: Limelight' (2003);
[11pm] 'Limelight' (1952);
[1:15am] 'Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin' (2003);
[3:30am] 'A King in New York' (1957);
[5:30am] 'Chaplin Today: A King in New York' (2003). (ALL TIMES EST)
Nobel prize-winning German writer Günter Grass leaves the house where Spain's Francisco de Goya was born after inaugurating an exhibition in the central village of Fuendetodos March 30, 2004. Grass, who won the Nobel Literature Award in 1999, opened an exhibition of his etchings in Goya's native town commemorating the 258th anniversary of the artist's birthday.
Photo by Luis Correas
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Donates Instruments to Smithsonian
Herbie Hancock
U.S. jazz legend Herbie Hancock donated several of his instruments to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on Tuesday and said he hoped they would inspire others.
A keyboard used to create some of his most famous hits, two synthesizers and a headphone microphone joined the museum's other musical memorabilia from jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton.
The keyboard, a Fairlight CMI Series II that cost Hancock $25,000, was the computer-based instrument he used to compose his 1983 hit "Rockit," a song famous for its use of a scratching technique.
Hancock is working on a new record called "HH Project 2004" which involved a collection of artists. He declined, for legal reasons, to give any further details.
Herbie Hancock
Christiane Kubrick, widow of the late director Stanley Kubrick, visits the a recreated set from Kubrick's last movie 'Eyes Wide Shut,' in a joint exhibition of the German film museum and the German architectural museum in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, March 30, 2004. The exhibition on life and work of the director will be open to the public through July 4, 2004.
Photo by Ferdinand Ostrop
Truckee Serenade
Paul McCartney
Legendary musician Paul McCartney became a dinner show entertainer when he took the stage at a local restaurant in a California resort town and sang a few songs, the co-owner said on Tuesday.
"Of course they were shocked," J.J. Morgan, co-owner of Moody's Bistro and Lounge, said of the 70 diners present when McCartney played on Monday night.
In the Lake Tahoe area town of Truckee on holiday with his wife Heather Mills, the former Beatle returned to the restaurant where he had dined and performed last year, Morgan said. A jazz trio was already on stage.
"He got up on stage and sang with the band again," Morgan said. "He played 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore' and then to the tune of 'Going to Kansas City' he put in some words about going to Tahoe City and about skiing."
Paul McCartney
Viacom in Talks
Gay TV Network
Sumner Redstone said Tuesday that he has been in discussions with U.S. cable operators about the possibility of launching a gay and lesbian channel. He called the would-be network "a good channel for them, and a good channel for Viacom."
"We are prepared to give it a go, and I'm optimistic about it," he said, adding that "there's no reason why we shouldn't aspire to reach such an enormous demographic, not only in the United States, but in the world."
He brushed off concerns a channel geared toward homosexuals could be opposed by some conservative and religious groups in the United States.
"The channel will succeed, I believe," he said. "And we will not be deterred by nay-sayers."
Gay TV Network
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Out of 'Will & Grace' Finale
Debra Messing
Actress Debra Messing, star of the NBC hit comedy "Will & Grace," has been ordered to stay off her feet for the rest of her pregnancy, forcing her to miss the show's final four episodes this season, the network said on Tuesday.
An NBC spokesman said production of the Thursday night sitcom has been quietly proceeding for the past three weeks without Messing, 35, who is eight months pregnant and expecting her first child with screenwriter-husband Daniel Zelman at the end of April.
As a result, her character is being written out of the final episodes, including the one-hour season finale set to air April 29 with a guest appearance by singer-actress Jennifer Lopez.
Debra Messing
Myanmarese people living in Delhi attend a protest rally to mark the tenth month anniversary of the Depayin massacre in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 30, 2004. On May 30, 2003 a bloody clash between the supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi and government supporters took place in Depayin where allegedly 70-80 people died, according to officials. The poster on left shows Mahatma Gandhi and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Photo by Manish Swarup
Pulls Out of Lisbon Fest
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses has canceled its scheduled May 30 headlining appearance at the Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon. In a statement, sole original member Axl Rose places the blame on guitarist Buckethead, who has apparently exited the lineup.
Rose cited Buckethead's interest in furthering a solo career first established with the 1992 release of a self-titled album on the Avant label. The masked artist, who is never seen in the flesh or without a KFC bucket on his head, will kick off a solo tour tomorrow (March 31) in Milwaukee supporting jam band Particle.
Guns N' Roses
Returning for 4th Season
'Crossing Jordan'
Jill Hennessy, the star of "Crossing Jordan" received notice Monday that NBC was picking up the show about her character as a medical examiner for a fourth season.
The return of "Crossing Jordan" this season was delayed until late winter because of Hennessy's pregnancy. But the series has proven to be a particularly strong ratings performer in its first four weeks back.
'Crossing Jordan'
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Visits Congress
Michael Jackson
Upbeat despite being snubbed by the Congressional Black Caucus, Michael Jackson took a break from his legal troubles in California to confer with several leading black lawmakers Tuesday about his upcoming mission to help fight AIDS in Africa.
Jackson wanted to meet with the full 38-member Congressional Black Caucus at its Wednesday meeting, but leaders turned him down, saying they were too busy dealing with legislative issues affecting black Americans.
But several caucus members, speaking on conditions of anonymity, said there was no upside politically for them to link their name to Jackson by holding a high-profile meeting with him. They also noted that Jackson has never donated any money to their causes and has never asked to speak to them before now.
Michael Jackson
Designer Vivienne Westwood looks through the glass toward the media during a photocall at a retrospective exhibition to celebrate her 30 years in the fashion industry, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Tuesday March 30, 2004. Westwood who began by designing T-shirts for the punk era, is associated with the British punk band, The Sex Pistols. A poster she designed with the song title 'Anarchy in the UK' by The Sex Pistols is at right.
Photo by Alastair Grant
Contract Extension
Leno
Late-night television's ratings king, Jay Leno, will be delivering rapid-fire jokes on NBC for years to come.
The network replaced his current deal, which expired at the end of next year, with a new contract that locks him in as "Tonight" show host until the end of 2009.
The five-year agreement was said to be worth about $100 million.
Leno
'Young Woman Seated At The Virginals'
Johannes Vermeer
The first painting by Dutch Old Master Johannes Vermeer to go on public sale in more than 80 years comes to auction in July with a starting price of $5.5 million and no sign of a ceiling.
"Young Woman Seated At The Virginals" moved in and out of the accepted body of works of the Delft-based painter over the last century, alternately accepted then rejected by art historians.
But a decade of forensic art detective work including chemical analysis of the paint and pigment and x-rays of the canvas has finally persuaded doubters to add the small painting to the 35 others that make up the accepted works.
Johannes Vermeer
Redone for Tourists
New Orleans Cemetery
New Orleans' St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 gained celluloid immortality when a stoned-out Peter Fonda climbed on its ornate, above-ground tombs in the 1969 movie "Easy Rider."
Even back then, many of the tombs at the 215-year-old cemetery were crumbling. And with no known relatives of the dead to help maintain about 80 percent of the tombs, many of them only got worse over the past few decades.
But now St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 has gotten a new lease on life.
The New Orleans nonprofit organization Save Our Cemeteries teamed up with the tourism industry, which provided hundreds of volunteers from around the country for a daylong restoration project several weeks ago.
For the rest, New Orleans Cemetery
In Memory
Alistair Cooke
Legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke, best known for his long-running radio series "Letter from America," has died at the age of 95.
Cooke retired from the BBC in March after 58 years of Letter from America.
He said he had decided to quit the show -- the world's longest-running speech radio program -- due to ill-health and on advice from his doctors.
Cooke -- a Briton who became an American citizen in 1941 -- first went to the United States in 1932 to study drama at Yale University on a Commonwealth Fund fellowship.
He was best known to many Americans for his show "Omnibus," which changed the face of U.S. television in the 1950s and for presenting "Masterpiece Theater" on public television.
He was even gently spoofed on the famous children's show "Sesame Street" as "Alistair Cookie."
Cooke joined the BBC in 1934 as a film critic and began reporting three years later.
Letter from America began in 1946, when Cooke was asked to give a weekly snapshot of life in America. During the following six decades, he provided listeners with insightful reports of the country's cultural and political affairs.
Born in Salford, northern England, in 1908, Cooke spent his last years living with his second wife in New York.
In presenting 2,869 shows, he had missed only three broadcasts. He wrote his letter every week on a typewriter in his flat overlooking New York City's Central Park.
Alistair Cooke
In Memory
Sylvia Froos
Vaudeville child star Sylvia Froos, who appeared in two all-talking short films six months before the release of the first hit sound feature, Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer," in 1927, has died at the age of 89, family and friends said on Tuesday.
Froos, who appeared with Shirley Temple in the 1934 picture "Stand Up and Cheer!" and performed as a singer on radio with the likes of Jolson, comedian Fred Allen and bandleader Paul Whiteman, died Sunday in New York City after suffering a stroke.
A New York native, Froos began her entertainment career in Baltimore at about age 7 and soon became a successful vaudeville singer under the name "Baby Sylvia Froos."
In her teens, she became known as "The Little Princess of Song," and under that title made two all-talking short-subject films for the Vitaphone Corp., an affiliate of Warner Bros. that produced sound pictures, according to music historian Peter Mintun.
Those two films were released in April 1927, half a year before the premiere of "The Jazz Singer," the first commercially successful "talky," Mintun said.
During the 1930s, Froos landed her own radio program on NBC and began appearing as a featured singer on other shows. She also began making phonograph records for the Crown and Victor labels, recording such songs as "Penthouse Serenade," "You Didn't Know the Music" and "Who's Your Little Who-Zis?"
Receiving higher billing than fellow child star Shirley Temple in the Depression-era musical "Stand Up and Cheer!," Froos originally was cast as the sister of actress Made Evans. But she ended up as a musical performer in the film singing two numbers -- "This is Our Last Night Together" and "Broadway's Gone Hill Billy," which she sang in a cowboy outfit.
During the early 1940s, Froos also made a half dozen "soundies," early forerunners of music videos made for Panoram machines, a type of video jukebox that patrons could play for 10 cents a song.
Her last phonograph recordings were made about 1950, when she performed under the Jubilee label. One of the songs, "A Satchel and a Seck," a parody of "A Bushel & a Peck," was sung as a duet with a young Allan Sherman more than a decade before his own famous song parody, "Hello, Muddah! Hello Fadduh!"
Sylvia Froos
The first Asian Elephant to be born at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire stands with her 22 year old mother, Kaylee, as she is revealed to the public for the first time, Tuesday March 30, 2004. The female calf who was born on March 16, weighs 328 pounds (149 kg), is 3 feet (99cm) tall and is due to be named in the near future.
Photo by Stefan Rousseau
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