BartCop Entertainment Archives - Wednesday, 29 June, 2005
Wednesday
29 June, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
James Chaney: The party's over for betrayed Republican (The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon)
As of today, after 25 years, I am no longer a Republican. I take this step with deep regret, and with a deep sense of betrayal.
David Moberg: Class Consciousness Matters (In These Times)
What's missing from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Michael Smith: The Real News in the Downing Street Memos (LA Times)
The way in which the intelligence was "fixed" to justify war is old news. The real news is the shady April 2002 deal to go to war, the cynical use of the U.N. to provide an excuse, and the secret, illegal air war without the backing of Congress
BILL COPE Give 'Em Heck, Howard! (Boise Weekly)
What Mister Dean meant to say wasn't that Republicans are pretty much a party of white Christian people. No mammy, what Dean meant to say is that the Republicans are pretty much a party of white Christian fat people.
John Byrne: Reporter, editor say 'Jeff Gannon' plagiarized article (RAW STORY)
A Massachusetts newspaper reporter and her then-editor have accused former White House correspondent 'Jeff Gannon' of plagiarizing an article at which the reporter was the only media witness, RAW STORY has learned.
Paul Krugman: The Chinese Challenge (New York Times)
(Click on "Colums," then on "The Chinese Challenge.")
Fifteen years ago, when Japanese companies were busily buying up chunks of corporate America, I was one of those urging Americans not to panic. You might therefore expect me to offer similar soothing words now that the Chinese are doing the same thing. But the Chinese challenge -- highlighted by the bids for Maytag and Unocal -- looks a lot more serious than the Japanese challenge ever did.
David Podvin: CLUELESS JOE (Make Them Accountable)
By offering to be its standard bearer, Biden is presenting his party with the opportunity to self-destruct.
Simon S. Maloy: Oh My God! They Tried to Steal South Park! (AlterNet)
Recent attempts to jazz up the conservative image by claiming that South Park leans right are more than misguided...they're hilarious.
David Bruce: Wise Up: Music (The Athens News)
John "Trane" Coltrane used to play long saxophone solos, and once he told Miles Davis that he didn't know how to stop. Mr. Davis replied, "Try taking the saxophone out of your mouth."
Cartoon: The Little Black Book for Young Homosexuals
More Than a Number
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SOME ARE "CATHOLIC"
OTHERS ARE "MILITARY"
THIS ONE'S "NATURAL"
Zen Man
(on a Natural "HIGH" School Campus in Lakeport)
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Joke
Light Bulb Manpower
How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a light bulb?
The Answer is TEN:
1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed,
2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed,
3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb,
4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the light bulb or for eternal darkness,
5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb,
6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner "Bulb Accomplished",
7. One administration insider to resign and in detail reveal how Bush was literally "in the dark" the whole time,
8. One to viciously smear #7,
9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along,
10. And finally, one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.
Thanks, Lar!
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I'M PEACHY KEEN
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The Wall Street Poet
The Sweet Crude Polka
Stop the economic recovery bubble machine. The price of oil is soaring again. You can fret about it. Or, you can get out the old accordion and get ready to polka...
The Sweet Crude Polka
up....spikes...a barrel
the markets...are starting...to brood
up...spikes...a barrel
who needed...this sixty...buck crude
we...all...remember
the last time...crude went on a tear
and you can bet your BPs
at the fed there's real fear
(grab your partner, round you go
watch gas prices grow and grow)
up...spikes..a barrel
demand is...outrunning...supply
up...spikes...a barrel
with China...for oil...we vie
Saud...ees...won't bail us
no near-term...improvement's...in sight
the experts now are all predicting
this is gone...na...bite
(the summer's driving just a teasin'
wait until the heating season)
Everybody....Dance!
©2005
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For more satirical verse:
www.wallstreetpoet.com
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Purple Gene Reviews
Fort Bragg Speechifying
Purple Gene's review of President George W. Bush and his Speech before the Airborne and Special Operation Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina:
"TWENTY MINUTES OF "TRIPE"" !
"READINGS FROM RAMBLING "ROVE"" !
CHIMP SPEAK……"AS THE IRAQI'S "STAND UP"…..AMERICANS WILL "STAND DOWN"!.....THIS MEANS 10 MORE YEARS IN IRAQ AND 10,000 MORE AMERICAN LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHIMP SPEAK…….."TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE "GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR…..WE WILL TAKE THE FIGHT TO THE ENEMY!"…..THIS MEANS - FUCK THE UNITED NATIONS - THE U.S. WILL DO WHAT EVER IT WANTS TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHIMP SPEAK……."WE WILL DEFEAT THE ENEMY ABROAD…..BEFORE THEY ATTACK US AT HOME"!....THIS MEANS THAT GEORGE BUSH INTENDS TO ATTACK IRAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FEAR MONGER
HATE MONGER
LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHIMP SPEAK……."GOD BLESS AMERICA !" THIS MEANS - MY CONSERVATIVE CRAZY CHRISTIAN CULT NOW OWNS THE U.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Purple gene says: "FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH, YOU'RE A LIAR, A CHEATER AND A TRAITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Lovely overcast morning, followed by a sunny, but cool afternoon.
Talked to dear old Dad tonight. Was 100° there today - and the humidity was nearly as high.
He said it was like August came early.
Tonight, Wedneday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'King Of Queens', then a RERUN 'Yes, Dear', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Tom Brokaw and Dakota Fanning.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Emily Mortimer and Dwight Yoakam.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH, followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order', then another RERUN 'Law & Order'.
On a RERUN Leno (from 6/6/05) are Will Ferrell, George Lopez, and Keith Urban.
On a RERUN Conan (from 4/13/05) are Jimmy Fallon, Anderson Cooper, and Lewis Black.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 4/20/05) are Tom Arnold and Citizen Cope.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN 'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH 'Dancing With The Stars', then a RERUN 'Lost'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 5/23/05) are Matthew Fox, Judge Joe Brown, and Bloc Party.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Beauty & The Geek', followed by a RERUN 'Smallville'.
Faux has a RERUN 'That 70s Show', followed by a RERUN 'Stacked', then a FRESH 'The Inside'.
UPN has a RERUN 'Eve', followed by another RERUN 'Eve', then a RERUN 'Veronica Mars'.
A&E has 'American Justice', followed by the movie 'Superman: The Movie'.
AMC offers the movie 'Missing In Action 2: The Beginning', followed by the movie '48 HRS', then the movie 'Nighthawks'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 6;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - The Club;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[4pm] 'Ground Force' - Stamford;
[4:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Tolworth;
[5pm] 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited' - Episode 2;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Guest;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 13;
[8pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Jackie Collins, Morten Harket;
[8:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Bo Derek;
[9pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 5;
[9:40pm] 'The Young Ones' - Nasty;
[10:20pm] 'The Young Ones' - Time;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 13;
[12am] 'So Graham Norton' - Jackie Collins, Morten Harket;
[12:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Bo Derek;
[1am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 5;
[1:40am] 'The Young Ones' - Nasty;
[2:20am] 'The Young Ones' - Time;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Jackie Collins, Morten Harket;
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Bo Derek;
[4am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 5;
[4:40am] 'The Young Ones' - Nasty;
[5:20am] 'The Young Ones' - Time;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Blow Out', 'Queer Eye', and 'Sports Kids Moms & Dads'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Greg Giraldo), 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', anther 'Comedy Central Presents' (Aries Spears), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Arj Barker), 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Stella'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart is Will Ferrell.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'UFO Files', followed by a FRESH 'Modern Marvels', then a FRESH 'Automaniac'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'The Governess' (1998);
[8AM] 'Like Water For Chocolate' (1992);
[10AM] 'The Cup' (1999);
[11:45AM] Short: 'The Last Frontier' (2002);
[12:15PM] 'A Room For Romeo Brass' (1999);
[2PM] 'Like Water For Chocolate' (1992);
[4PM] 'IFC June Short Film Showcase' (2005);
[5PM] 'Julian Po' (1997);
[6:30PM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[7PM] 'The Truce' (La Tregua) (1997);
[9PM] 'The Business of Strangers' (2001);
[10:30PM] 'Fur On The Asphalt: The Greg The Bunny Reunion Show' (2005);
[11PM] 'Auto Focus' (2002);
[1AM] 'The Business of Strangers' (2001);
[2:30AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #107' (2005);
[3AM] 'Auto Focus' (2002);
[5AM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[5:30AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #107' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Tremors', followed by the movie 'Tremors II: Aftershocks'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/07/05);
[8AM] 'Bollywood/Hollywood';
[9:40AM 'Westray';
[11AM 'New Waterford Girl';
[12:40PM] 'To Be and To Have';
[2:25PM] 'Purity';
[3:30PM] 'Bollywood/Hollywood';
[5:15PM] 'A Girl's Guide to the Galaxy';
[5:30PM] 'Trembling Before G-d';
[7PM] 'New Waterford Girl';
[8:40PM] 'D.E.B.S.';
[9PM] 'Japon';
[11:10PM] 'Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill';
[11:30PM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/08/05);
[12:30AM] 'AKA';
[12:30AM] 'City of Ghosts';
[2:30AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/09/05);
[3:30AM] 'The Gift';
[3:30AM] 'Wigstock: The Movie';
[5AM] 'The Tasty Bust Reunion'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM spends the day with
Jeanette MacDonald and
Nelson Eddy
[6am] 'Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts'; (1993)
[7am] 'Rose Marie' (1936);
[9am] 'New Moon' (1940) [View Trailer];
[11am] 'Bitter Sweet' (1940);
[12:45pm] 'Naughty Marietta' (1935) [View Trailer];
[2:30pm] 'I Married An Angel' (1942) [View Trailer];
[4pm] 'The Girl Of The Golden West' (1938);
[6pm] 'Sweethearts' (1938);
[8pm] 'Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers' (1956) [View Trailer];
[9:30pm] 'Mother Goose Stories' (1946);
[11pm] 'Mighty Joe Young' (1949);
[12:45am] 'Mysterious Island' (1961) [View Trailer];
[2:30am] 'The Mysterious Island' (1929);
[4:15am] 'The Ghost of Slumber Mountain' (1917) SILENT ;
[4:45am] 'The Manster' (1962). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Thursday - 06/30
TCM features films directed by
Anthony Mann all day.
[6am] 'Sing Your Way Home' (1945);
[7:15am] 'The Bamboo Blonde' (1946);
[8:30am] 'Desperate' (1947);
[9:45am] 'Two O'Clock Courage' (1945);
[11am] 'Side Street' (1949);
[12:30pm] 'Border Incident' (1949);
[2:15pm] 'Devil's Doorway' (1950);
[3:45pm] 'The Naked Spur' (1953) [View Trailer];
[5:30pm] 'Cimarron' (1960);
[8pm] 'Roughly Speaking' (1945);
[10pm] 'Honky Tonk' (1941);
[12am] 'It's A Date' (1940);
[2am] 'My Bill' (1938);
[3:15am] 'Min And Bill' (1930);
[4:30am] 'Tugboat Annie' (1933). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Singers India Arie (L) and Motown recording legend Nancy Wilson pose at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills June 27, 2005.
Photo by Fred Prouser
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Wins Poker Event
Jennifer Tilly
Actress Jennifer Tilly is no poker pretender. Tilly won the Ladies no-limit Texas Hold 'Em event at the World Series of Poker, marking the first time a celebrity has won a bracelet at the famous tournament.
Tilly's skillful and self-admitted lucky play earned her $158,625. She beat 600 players to capture first place in the grueling two-day event that featured some of the top female pros in the world. The buy-in was $1,000.
Tilly, 46, said she's learned plenty of pointers from her boyfriend, poker player Phil "Unabomber" Laak.
"When you're living with Phil, you kinda learn by osmosis," Tilly told CardPlayer.com. "Even in the middle of the night, he wakes up screaming out poker terms. Most guys scream out other girls' names. He'll wake up and go, `I should have bet more on the turn.'"
Jennifer Tilly
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Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates delivers a speech as he is presented a Honorary Doctor of Science during an honorary doctorate conferral ceremony at the Waseda University in Tokyo June 28, 2005. Microsoft is bolstering its joint research with Japanese universities, targeting such areas as security and natural language processing, the world's largest software maker said on Tuesday.
Photo by Issei Kato
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Sues Ex-Stylist Over Auction Items
U2
Bono wants his hat back. And his earrings. His sweat shirt, too. Dublin-based rock band U2 went to court Tuesday to recover items from former stylist Lola Cashman, who has a range of memorabilia from her work on their 1987 Joshua Tree world tour.
In 2002, Cashman tried to sell some of the items - including a cowboy hat, sweat shirt, pants and earrings worn by Bono - at a London auction house. U2's lawyers stopped the sale by telling auctioneers the goods weren't Cashman's to sell.
On Tuesday, lawyer Paul Sreenan told Dublin Circuit Court Judge Matthew Deery that Bono and other members of U2 would testify that they hadn't given any of the items to Cashman, who was also accused of claiming inappropriate expenses during the tour.
U2
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Money-Back Guarantee
'Cinderella Man'
In a rare marketing ploy, the No. 2 U.S. movie theater chain, AMC Entertainment, is offering a money-back guarantee to customers for boxing picture "Cinderella Man," hoping to boost interest in the struggling film amid a record box-office slump.
Advertisements offering on-the-spot refunds to AMC patrons began running on June 24 in newspapers and on the exhibitor's Web site (www.amctheaters.com), AMC spokeswoman Pam Blase said on Tuesday.
The ads, welcomed by the film's distributor, Universal Pictures, say in part: "AMC believes Cinderella Man is one of the finest motion pictures of the year!"
The "Cinderella Man" offer marks the exhibitor's first money-back guarantee since "Mystic Pizza," Julia Robert's breakout 1988 film.
'Cinderella Man'
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'Today Show' Edit
Tom Cruise
As Tom Cruise got all shook up with Matt Lauer on Thursday, the movie star's publicists kicked into high gear, TVNewser hears. They lit into senior entertainment producer Tim Bruno, demanding that 'Today' only air portions of the interview that related to War of the Worlds. Then the handlers threatened to pull all future star bookings from the top-rated morning show. NBC eventually came to an agreement with the reps, but I wonder what Cruise said in the 20 minutes of the interview that didn't air...
"The ensuing buzz seemed likely to give another lift to the top-rated morning show, which weathered a strong challenge from ABC's Good Morning America this spring," the L.A. Times' Matea Gold says.
Tom Cruise
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Tall ship The Grand Turk, left, taking on the role of HMS Victory, takes centre stage during a firework display which illuminated a re-enactment of the Battle of Trafalgar in the Solent, off Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, Tuesday, June 28, 2005. The re-enactment acted as a finale to the Royal Fleet Review commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Photo by Chris Young
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Starbucks Releasing Bootlegs CD
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan made his mark playing in one cafe. Soon, he'll be in thousands. Starbucks Coffee Co. has reached a deal to produce and exclusively release a CD of 10 Dylan recordings from New York's Gaslight Cafe in 1962, when he was just finding himself as a songwriter. The Gaslight, in Greenwich Village, was a focal point of the folk revival in the early '60s.
"Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962" will be available at Starbucks stores in the United States and Canada on Aug. 30. It includes the earliest known recordings of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," as well as folk standards "Barbara Allen" and "The Cuckoo."
Fans have circulated bootlegs of Dylan's Gaslight performances over the years, but these are the first to be professionally produced and remastered, Starbucks said Tuesday.
Bob Dylan
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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USDA Fails to Find Cause of Attack
Roy Horn
Federal investigators still do not know what led a Bengal tiger to attack illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy during a performance nearly two years ago.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's final report - dated Sept. 28, and consisting of the Mirage hotel-casino's internal investigation, a Las Vegas police probe and witness statements - was obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request.
In its comprehensive account of the mauling, the 233-page report said the nearly 7-year-old tiger did indeed attack Horn. Nowhere do investigators conclude the tiger was trying to aid the entertainer after it knocked him down - despite the claims of Horn and others that the animal was only helping him.
Detectives with the Las Vegas Police Department's homeland security unit were assigned to the case because some of the scenarios that were suggested - among them, that animal-rights activists provoked the attack, or that it was an act of economic terrorism against Las Vegas.
For more, Roy Horn
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Image provided by the Philips Collection shows Utagawa Hiroshige's No. 17 Yui - Satta Pass, a color woodcut from the series 'The 53 Stages on the Tokaido' Road. The beauty and humor that he pictured on the road between two great cities brought fame to Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the greatest Japanese artists of the 1800s, and influenced French and American painters from Paul Cezanne to James McNeill Whistler. The Phillips Collection, the first American museum of modern art, has put together a rare exhibit of the woodblock prints, first published in 1863-4 as an accordion-like album, but now widely scattered.
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Moving To CMT
Miss America
After a half-century on broadcast network television and a decade of declining ratings, the Miss America pageant has found a home on country music cable channel CMT.
The network said Monday that it has signed a multiyear agreement with the Miss America Organization to telecast the pageant -- one of TV's longest-running franchises -- starting in January. CMT will retain telecast rights through 2007, with options through 2011.
CMT is planning a major promotional push that will include Miss America-supportive programming set to air on sister network VH1, said Paul Villadolid, VP programming and development at CMT. (CMT and VH1 are owned by Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks.)
Miss America
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Bronc horses leave the Calgary Stampede Ranch near Hanna, Alberta June 28, 2005. The horses are used for the bronc events and have a 206 km (128 miles) journey to the annual Calgary Stampede rodeo. The trail will take six days.
Photo by Patrick Price
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Basic Cable Networks
Ratings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 20-26. Each ratings point represents 1,096,000 households. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses.
1. "The Closer" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 3.8, 4.15 million homes.
2. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.3, 3.62 million homes.
3. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 3.0, 3.32 million homes.
4. "Real World XVI" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.7. 2.98 million homes.
5. "Into the West" (Friday, 8 p.m.), TNT, 2.7, 2.97 million homes.
6. "Real World/Road Rules Challenge Inferno II" (Monday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.6, 2.88 million homes.
7. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.82 million homes.
8. "The 4400" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), USA, 2.5, 2.79 million homes.
9. "Into the West" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), TNT, 2.5, 2.77 million homes.
10. Baseball: Mets vs. Yankees (Sunday, 8 p.m.), ESPN, 2.5, 2.72 million homes.
11. "Law & Order: SVU" (Sunday, 7:58 p.m.), USA, 2.5, 2.698 million homes.
12. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.697 million homes.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 2:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.66 million homes.
14. "Drake & Josh" (Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.65 million homes.
15. Law & Order: SVU" (Sunday, 6:58 p.m.), USA, 2.4, 2.60 million homes.
Ratings
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A Chinese girl holding an umbrella walks in a garden with flowers positioned to form the slogan 'One World, One Dream' for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, in Beijing, June 28, 2005. China planned to pump nearly $ 40 billion into an infrastructure building spree to make sure Beijing was ready to host the 2008 Olympics, state media said yesterday.
Photo by Alfred Cheng Jin
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In Memory
Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote, a novelist and U.S. Civil War scholar who lent his dulcet-toned narration to a popular televised documentary of the bloody 19th Century conflict, has died, his family said on Tuesday.
Born in the Delta Mississippi town of Greenville on Nov. 7, 1916, Foote was a reluctant student in school but a lover of books and the South who struck up a lifelong friendship with novelist Walker Percy. Their correspondence was published in book form in 1998.
Foote worked briefly as a journalist for Hodding Carter's Delta Star and the Associated Press in New York but turned full time to writing stories and novels.
Though a prolific novelist, Foote's three-volume nonfiction history of the Civil War -- "The Civil War: A Narrative" -- that he began in the 1950s and completed in 1974, drew the most readers.
He became a minor celebrity for his mellifluous narration delivered in his distinctive southern drawl on Top of Form 1
Bottom of Form 1
Ken Burns' 11-hour documentary about the war that aired on public television in 1990.
Foote's wry anecdotes brought him speaking requests and catapulted his novels back into print.
Shelby Foote
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Animal care specialist Renetta Halverson wipes the face of a rockhopper penguin chick after a feeding session at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago Tuesday, June 28, 2005. The chick was one of two born on June 15, each weighing only 70 grams. Also hatched at the aquarium was a gentoo penguin chick, born on June 23. All can be seen at the Shedd's Oceanarium exhibit.
Photo by M. Spencer Green
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