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Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
July 2, 2002
resident George W. Bush said that he would not support the creation
of a Palestinian state until the Palestinian people get rid of Yasir
Arafat. Bush sketched his vision of a Palestinian state, a vision that
included an independent legislature and judiciary and other democratic
institutions; Bush also said he wanted Palestine to be a land of free
markets without corruption.
"I am willing to take my chances and say
that this speech will not result in anything," said Schlomo Ben Ami, a
former Israeli foreign minister. "At times I think he is talking about
Switzerland and not about the Middle East."
Britain's foreign
secretary Jack Straw criticized Bush's ultimatum, saying it was up to
the Palestinians to choose their own leader.
WorldCom, America's
second largest long-distance company, announced that it had hidden
$3.8 billion in expenses over the last year in what might be the
largest accounting fraud in history.
Nasdaq dropped to a five-year
low, and trading in WorldCom was suspended. Investors were said to be
experiencing a crisis of faith in the capitalist system, and the
Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against the company,
which was said to be nearing the end of its useful life.
Xerox announced it was "reclassifying" $6.4 billion in revenue from the late
1990s.
Financial "contagion" was detected in Latin America.
Federal prosecutors said they had widened their insider trading investigation
of Martha Stewart to include obstruction of justice.
The U.S. dollar
fell against the euro and the yen, and Europeans were grumbling that
America was perhaps not such a safe place to invest anymore.
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
--Roger D. Hodge
A Difecta?
from Dave
Gosh, Leonard Nimoy is mentioned in two consecutive days on Bartcop
E! Is this the beginning of a trend?
TTFN,
Dave
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"I'm diplomacy challenged. I make fish angry." -- Harper, Andromeda
Well, Dave...truth be told, Leonard Nimoy was HOT by my pre- (and early post) pubescent standards. And I quote ''Twinkle, twinkle, little Earth. How I wonder what you're worth.''
Should I admit I have a wav format of Bilbo Baggins on this hardrive? (While looking for my old Nimoy albums, came across a treasure trove of Bill Cosby - "Why Is There Air?", "Wonderfulness", "Revenge", "To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With",
"It's True! It's True!", and "Bill Cosby"....oh, and a stray Jackie Leonard - "Scream On Someone You Love Today - Or- How To Become A Better Person By Opening Up Your Mouth and Telling The Whole World Where To Get Off)".
It's time to either clean house, or take inventory...LOL
Reader Assistance
Re: Conan Link
From Chris B
Noticed that you had asked for a site that had information on
who was on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". Here's a website I use that
keeps a reliable lineup of the talk shows:
Late Night Listings
- Chris B
Thanks, Chris! That's the best late night TV link (so far)!
Reader Submission
'The Ballad of Shrubbery's Team'
By Theatetus
The Ballad of Shrubbery's Team
Sung to the tune of The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle
Just sit right back
and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful theft
that started from election day
and left us all bereft.
The V-P was a crooked business man
his boss, dumb as a germ.
A nation set sail that day
on a four-year term, a four-year term.
The politics are getting rough,
the ship of state is tossed.
All for the theft of an election
the country might be lost,
the country might be lost.
Our nation foundered in this
uncharted legal land
with Shrubbery,
and Cheney too,
Dr. Strangelove and his bitch,
the War Crime General,
the Nazi and Ari Ann
All on Shrubbery's Team !
Now this is the story of America.
Once it was brave and free.
Now it's lead by liars and cowards,
with endless thievery.
The Shrub and Cheney too
will do their very best
to ruin your way of life
Be sure that they won't rest.
No choice, no rights, no ballot box,
not a single liberty,
like Thirties Germany
it's Nazi as can be.
So join us here each day, my friends,
You're sure to be outraged
from seven criminal characters
All on Shrubbery's Team!
~~ Theatetus
Thanks, Theatetus
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started looking into 4th of July stuff in the area. Jeez. Not much in a 'traditional' celebration in the area - meaning the ones in this area have too hefty of a price tag attached. While
probably end up in the Valley.
The tomatoes are really perking along. By this time next week, should be wondering what to do with them all. (And that's a good thing - LOL)
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', and follows with the rerun 2nd part of a 2-parter TV-movie 'Mama Flora's Family'.
On a rerun Dave (Original Air Date: 5/22/02) are Jennifer Lopez, 1-Person Graduating Class, April Kleinschmidt and Patty Loveless.
On a rerun Craiggers are Dennis Hopper, Mo Collins, and Government Mule.
NBC has a 'Trifecta' of reruns - 'Ed', 'The West Wing', and 'Law & Order'.
On a rerun Jay are Adam Sandler, Noah Gray-Cabey, and Abandoned Pools.
On a rerun Conan are Darrell Hammond, Rachel Griffiths, Harry Shearer.
On a rerun Carson Daly is Nelly Furtado.
ABC has reruns of 'My Wife & Kids', 'Jim', and 2 'Drew Carey's. A fresh 'State V. ' follows.
On a rerun Bill Maher (Original Airdate: 12/30/98) are Marilyn Manson (recording artist), Cyndi Mosteller, Robert Reich, and Pamela Anderson (actress).
The WB has the TV-movie 'Sabrina, Down Under'.
Faux has 2 reruns of 'Grounded For Life', then a rerun 'Bernie Mac', and a fresh 'American Idol: The Search For A Superstar'.
UPN has a rerun of 'Enterprise', and a rerun of 'Buffy'.
TCM seems to go quite Lassie mad. Lots of Lassie movies. Sorry, not my fav - Lassie always seemed to be a bitch (Sarcasm alert - yes, I know Lassie wasn't portrayed by a genetically female dog).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Monday At The Hollywood Bowl
The Who
Meet the new band, the same as the old band.
Or maybe not. Four days after the death of bass player John Entwistle, the two surviving members of British rock band the Who kicked off their previously planned North American
tour in front of 18,000 fans at the historic Hollywood Bowl on Monday.
While some people debated the propriety of playing so soon after the death, a surprisingly lighthearted Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend got down to business, grinding out two
hours of classic material from three decades' worth of albums.
The decision to tour provoked disbelief in some quarters.
"It's business -- and I underline the word 'business' -- as usual," a disgusted Jim Ladd, a veteran Los Angeles radio personality, said on his broadcast Monday night.
Guitarist Townshend intimated as much on his Web site last Saturday when he wrote, "I simply believe we have a duty to go on, to ourselves, ticket buyers, staff, promoters, big and little people."
The concert began on a poignant note as Daltrey and guitarist Townshend sauntered onto the stage and hugged each other. Both were dressed in black, as was a stationary Palladino who
blended into the speaker stack behind him.
The Who launched into three early hits, "I Can't Explain," "Substitute" and "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere." Townshend, in black sunglasses, furiously attacked his red Fender guitar.
The ensemble was rounded out by drummer Zak Starkey, keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick, and Townshend's youngest brother, Simon, on acoustic guitar and backing vocals. Original drummer
Keith Moon died of an accidental overdose of sedatives in 1978.
Townshend lightened the mood a few songs later when he compared the Bowl's white shell-like stage to a "white vagina," while the giant spheres suspended from the ceiling looked like a "testicle factory."
While noting the absence of Entwistle's "huge harmonic noise," he congratulated Palladino on playing well anyway.
"For fans that have followed us for many years, this is gonna be very difficult," Townshend said. "We understand. We're not pretending that nothing's happened."
But he said Los Angeles was a great place to kick off the tour, joking that it was "full of emptiness, deep rivers of shallow nothingness."
"I think you know, probably more than anybody what the show business side of all this stuff is, and we do feel comfortable to be here tonight."
"Live every moment of your lives," Daltrey told the crowd before Townshend dragged him off, all the guitars intact.
The Who At The Bowl
Man With A Solution
Robin Williams
Robin Williams had his own solution to last week's federal appeals court ruling that it is unconstitutional to make children recite that we are "one nation under God" in the Pledge of
Allegiance. In this week's New Yorker, Williams suggests: "Why don't they change it to 'one nation under Canada? Or 'over Mexico?' That way, everybody's happy"…
Robin Williams
Favorite Site
RackJite
< snip>''I get asked daily where I have been. I guess the answer is that I have
fallen into the very unpopular world of Ambrose Bierce and H. L.
Mencken (people are basically dumber than a potato), and that perhaps
it best to just keep my mouth shut.
As we fall further and further into this conservative morass of our
callous self consumed parochialism - which we have accepted as
humanities' high road - I find it hard to blame either politicians or
the media for much of anything at all. Pandering to either votes or
money, they are only giving most Americans what they want. The
important things; like who is in the semi finals, who has been
nominated for an Oscar, who on TV can eat the most bugs, who has been
abducted or molested, what celebrity is sleeping with whom, and most
importantly, that both our patriotism and supernatural deity are more
real and superior to everyone else's.
Osama Bin Laden - Savior of the GOP - 7/1/02
Imagine that September 11th never happened.
In only a year an a half, President Bush has overseen the biggest
economic downturn since 1929. Millions of people have lost hundreds of
billions of dollars. They lost their retirements, their life savings,
their 401ks, their jobs, their homes and their health insurance.
Poverty, unemployment, drug use and violent crime are up from the
Clinton years.
The Republican CEO friends of Bush have looted their companies, crooks
taking hundreds of millions while leaving their stock holders and
employees holding an empty bag. All while Bush looks on with his
stupid smirk doing nothing about the structural causation, only
pointing his finger at unnamed individuals, once his best pals.
Bush and Ashcroft have decimated the Bill of Rights. About all we have
left is more people with more guns, more balkanization regarding
States Rights, and I suppose they still can't force is to house
soldiers in our homes - though I bet most Americans would love to have
a few camouflaged, flag wearing, grenade laden, machine gun toting
wannabe killers strutting around their bedrooms. '' < /snip>
Woo Hoo! He's back & has a mouthful to spit!
RackJite
Interview Or Psychotic Episode?
Michael Ovitz
Industryites are still trying to come up with an apt description for the public self-immolation of onetime Hollywood titan Michael Ovitz.
In a stunning profile in Vanity Fair's August issue, which hits newsstands Wednesday, the dethroned boss of Artists Management Group adds to his considerable woes by, among other things,
accusing Hollywood's "gay mafia" of ruining his business and his reputation.
The piece, which was being frantically copied and circulated Monday in Hollywood, provides the most detailed account to date of the financial missteps that dashed Ovitz's ambitious
original plans for AMG.
"The last six years have been a nightmare for me," Ovitz is quoted as saying. "I know how hard it is for people to see me as a victim, but in this case it's pretty close to the truth."
Ovitz's statements about a "gay mafia" left even the battle-hardened players named in the piece speechless.
"You're not serious," Vivendi Universal Entertainment CEO Barry Diller told Burrough. "Wow. He said that on the record? Wow ... Wow. I'm stunned. I'm stunned."
But Ovitz reserves his greatest invective for an enemies list that includes CAA partners Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett, DreamWorks principal David Geffen and New
York Times writer Bernard Weinraub.
"It was the goal of these people to eliminate me," Ovitz told Burrough.
Reactions around town to the VF story Monday ran the gamut from the predictable schadenfreude to utter disbelief.
Michael Ovitz
To Auction Comic Collection
Stan Lee
Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee is putting part of his personal collection of comic books up for auction.
Items for sale will include Lee's collection of original art from the Spider-Man newspaper strip and personal reference copies of key Marvel Comics issues.
But, Lee warns "they're not in mint condition." "They're all well-thumbed."
The sale will be conducted during the Wizard World comic book collectors convention July 4-7 in Chicago.
Stan Lee
www.HeritageComics.com
Starting To Back Pedal
Tom Cruise
Speaking at last week's London premiere of "Minority Report," the actor told reporters, "I think the U.S. is terrifying, and it saddens me. You only
have to look at the state of affairs in America. I do worry about my children. As a parent you are always concerned. I just want them to be in a place
where they are going to be strong enough to be able to make the right choices."
But Cruise's rep, Pat Kingsley, denies that he's ready to ship them out of the "terrifying" United States.
"They're going to school in L.A." Kingsley said, adding that the children will spend the Fourth of July with dad, who turns 40 tomorrow.
Tom Cruise
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Cancels TV Appearance
Martha Stewart
There will be no grilled Martha Stewart on "The Early Show" on CBS Wednesday.
The domestic diva cancelled her appearance on the CBS morning news program late Tuesday after being told she would be asked about the investigation into her stock dealings.
She had been booked to talk about ice box desserts.
It means there will be no repeat of her memorable appearance on the program last week, when Stewart continued to chop cabbage for a salad as host Jane Clayson asked her questions about alleged insider trading.
"I want to focus on my salad, because that's why we're here," Stewart said then.
Martha Stewart
Lawsuit Settled
Jennifer Aniston
With husband Brad Pitt at her side, "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston on Tuesday settled her privacy lawsuit against two magazines that published photographs of her sunbathing topless in her back yard.
Pitt and Aniston were in court for the announcement and they left without speaking to reporters.
The nonjury trial in Aniston's lawsuit had been scheduled to begin Tuesday.
As part of the settlement the parties agreed to disclose no details, and lawyers refused to elaborate outside court.
Aniston has received judgments and settled claims with other U.S. and European magazines that published the photo, but still has a lawsuit pending against the photographer who allegedly took the photo.
Jennifer Aniston
Theatrical Shorts To Return
Bugs & Pals
The Warner Bros. film studio is producing a new series of animated briefs starring its stable of Looney Tunes characters to run in front of such upcoming feature-length family films as the next "Harry Potter" movie.
So far, the studio has given its animation department the go-ahead for a dozen cartoon "featurettes" of favorites like the wise-cracking Bugs Bunny ("Ehhhh, what's up, doc?"), the stammering Porky Pig (B-dee, b-dee, b-dee, that's all
folks!"), loudmouth rooster Foghorn Leghorn ("That's a joke, son!") and the wide-eyed Tweety Bird ("I tawt I taw a puddy-tat!").
The project is part of a concerted strategy by Warner Bros., a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc., to make the most of a 70-year-old brand dating to the earliest days of animation and familiar to generations of movie and TV audiences.
Looney Tunes are perhaps best known to Baby Boomers and younger generations for their longtime TV presence, starting in the 1960s with "The Bugs Bunny Show." But they got their start 70 years ago as theatrical
shorts in an era when cartoons were as much a part of the moviegoing experience as popcorn.
The very first Looney Tunes cartoon, an eight-minute musical short created by ex-Disney animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, was released by Warner Bros. in April 1930.
Today's more familiar crop of Looney Tunes characters came a few years later, with Porky Pig making his debut in 1935, Daffy Duck in 1937 and Bugs Bunny and his goofy nemesis, Elmer Fudd, in 1940. Most of the
original human talent behind those cartoons, including animators Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson, are gone, as is legendary Looney Tunes voice artist Mel Blanc.
But at least one veteran, voice actress June Foray, who has done the talking for Granny in the "Tweety & Sylvester" cartoons for 50 years (she's also the original voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel), is
coming back for the latest round of shorts, Schwartz said.
Bugs & Pals
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Hitler As Advertising Icon?
Anti-Euro Ad
An ad that uses a Hitler impersonator to urge Britons to oppose membership in the single European currency began airing in movie theaters Tuesday, prompting criticism from several legislators and a Jewish leader.
The "No" campaign ad, which also includes an appearance by rock star and Live Aid founder Sir Bob Geldof, urges Britons not to accept the new currency and portrays Adolf Hitler as a euro supporter.
The ad briefly shows comedian Rik Mayall dressed as Hitler barking: "Ein volk, ein Reich, ein euro" — a reference to the Nazi slogan: "Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer," or "One people, one empire, one leader."
The chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Labor peer Lord Greville Janner, called it "crass, distasteful and totally inappropriate." He said, "Those responsible should withdraw this offensive advert immediately."
Besides Mayall and Geldof, the celebrities in the ad include comedians Vic Reeves, Harry Enfield and John Sessions, chef Gordon Ramsay and Labor legislators Diane Abbott and Kate Hoey.
The government has said it favors joining the euro in principle, but only when economic factors benefit Britain. The government said it will assess by June 2003 whether its self-imposed
economic tests have been met, and will put any decision to a popular referendum.
Hitler As Advertising Icon?
More Spencer Tunick
Chile
Alrededor de 3.000 chilenos, desafiando el conservadurismo local, la final de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol y una gélida mañana, posaron desnudos el domingo
en el centro de Santiago para el polémico fotógrafo estadounidense Spencer Tunick. Chilenos anónimos posan para el fotógrafo Tunick en Santiago de Chile,
el 30 de junio de 2002.
Photo by Max Montecinos
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Farm to Be Opened
Flannery O'Connor
Fans of Flannery O'Connor soon will be able to tour Andalusia, the farm that inspired much of O'Connor's writing.
The farm where O'Connor wrote many of her short stories has, until now, been closed to the public. O'Connor died in 1964 at the age of 39.
The Milledgeville-Baldwin County Convention and Visitors Bureau announced recently that it will open the farm in late August for trolley tours of the grounds.
The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation also plans to restore the farmhouse and other structures, but executive director Craig Amason said there are no definite plans to open the buildings to public tours.
Flannery O'Connor
Wedding News
Shannon Elizabeth & Joseph Reitman
"American Pie" actress Shannon Elizabeth married her "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" costar Joseph Reitman in Mexico.
The couple recited wedding vows during a June 15 sunset ceremony at Hotelito Desconocido in Jalisco, Mexico, publicist Monique Huey said Tuesday. It was the first marriage for each.
The bride, 28, wore a Badgley Mischka custom-made couture gown of beaded light ivory lace, while the groom, 34, wore an Ermenegildo Zegna linen and silk suit.
Actress Heather Ankeny was the maid of honor and Reitman's best man was longtime friend Steven Fenton, who is Elizabeth's manager. About 20 family members and friends attended the ceremony.
Shannon Elizabeth & Joseph Reitman
Bought Acuff-Rose
Sony/Michael Jackson
Pop superstar Michael Jackson and his partners at Sony Music Entertainment have agreed to buy the legendary country music publisher Acuff-Rose, whose 55,000-song library includes works by Hank Williams,
Roy Orbison and the Everly Brothers, the seller, Gaylord Entertainment Co., said on Tuesday.
More than 100 Acuff-Rose songs have been broadcast over the airwaves at least one million times, including "Oh Pretty Woman," made famous by the late Roy Orbison, and "Tennessee Waltz," which became a
No. 1 hit in 1950 when Patti Page recorded it.
By acquiring 60-year-old Acuff-Rose, the venture, Sony/ATV, adds the oldest country music publisher to the biggest, Tree International, which it acquired in 1989 and which is now known as Sony/ATVTree.
Gaylord is selling Acuff-Rose for $157 million cash to Sony/ATV, which owns and/or administers the copyrights and catalogs for music by the Beatles, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan,
Elvis Presley and Pearl Jam, among others. Sony/ATV was formed in 1995 when Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) teamed up with Jackson. It has more than 250,000 songs in its stable.
Over the years, Sony Music Entertainment has bought the Randy Bachman catalog, which includes "Takin' Care of Business" and the Tom Kelly/Billy Steinberg catalogs, which
include megahits "Like a Virgin" and "I Touch Myself."
Sony/ATV bought the Lowery Music library in 1999, adding "Be-Bop-A-Lula" and "Young Love," among others, to its list.
Sony/Michael Jackson
BartCop TV!
Moving The Date Up
Oscars in February?
Starting in 2004, the Oscars will absolutely, definitely be held a month earlier than usual. Well, maybe.
The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) voted June 25 to move up the date of the ceremonies to February, and director of communications John Pavlik said, "Internally,
it's do-able. It's difficult, but we can do it."
However, many in Hollywood doubt the shift will happen.
The target date is Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. But there are many unanswered questions and many people who haven't weighed in yet. Questions include whether the academy could get the necessary
city-traffic-police permits for such a date, whether it could book a theater (presumably the Kodak) and what ABC thinks of the idea.
The studios have yet to weigh in -- and many AMPAS board members work for studios.
Even in a late-February slot, the Oscars still would be preceded by several kudocasts, including the AFI Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards, as well as critics prizes. (The SAG Awards
usually are held in early March.)
Oscars in February?
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The First Church of the Last Laugh
The First Church of the Last Laugh
To Undergo Prostate Surgery
Bob Barker
Game show host Bob Barker will be hospitalized next week to undergo prostate surgery, his publicist said Tuesday.
Barker, 78, will be hospitalized for two days at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. and will recuperate during the summer hiatus from
taping CBS' "The Price Is Right," said publicist Henri Bollinger.
Barker signed a five-year contract last year to stay on as host of "The Price is Right" through 2006. The show, which debuted in 1957 on NBC, is among the
highest-rated on daytime TV and is the longest running game show in television history.
Bob Barker
Wedding News
Roos - Arnold
Actor-comedian Tom Arnold, host of Fox Sports Network's "Best Damn Sports Show Period," has married girlfriend Shelby Roos.
Details about Saturday's ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel weren't disclosed by Arnold publicist Staci Wolfe, who said Monday the couple celebrated with friends
and will honeymoon later this summer.
Arnold, 43, was previously married to comedian Roseanne. They divorced in November 1994 after nearly four years of marriage. He married Julie Champnella in 1995;
they were divorced in 1999.
Roos, 30, works for a political consultant in Los Angeles.
Roos - Arnold
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Acting Jobs Declining
Guild Report
The number of movie and television roles for Screen Actors Guild members dropped 9.3 percent last year, with supporting actors among the hardest hit, the guild said.
So-called runaway production, in which projects are filmed outside the United States, was one reason for the decline, SAG said.
For 2001, according to the report released Monday, 48,167 roles were cast under guild contracts, compared to 53,134 in 2000.
The SAG report, released Monday, also showed a decline in guild roles for minority actors. In 2001, a total of 22.1 percent of all roles went to minority performers, compared to 22.9 percent in 2000.
Black actors received 14.4 percent of the contract roles cast in 2001, a drop from 14.8 percent the year before. There was a slight year-to-year drop for Hispanic actors, to 4.8 percent from
4.9 percent, and for Asian and Pacific Islanders (to 2.5 percent from 2.6 percent).
An upward bump was recorded for American Indian actors, from 0.2 percent in 2000 to 0.37 percent in 2001. Given the small numbers, American Indian casting in a single project such as the recent
film "Windtalkers" could account for the change.
Men received 62 percent of the roles cast in 2001 — a finding similar to previous years — and men worked nearly twice as many days as women in TV and movies roles, SAG said.
The information is based on all TV and movie productions reported to the guild through a casting data report. Guild contracts do not include daytime TV, game or reality shows.
Guild Report
Family Closes Memorial to Public
Rosemary Clooney
The family of 1950s singing sensation Rosemary Clooney closed a public memorial service planned for Wednesday "due to tremendous response" for seats in the Beverly Hills church,
Clooney's publicist said on Monday.
Plans for the evening rosary at Church of the Good Shepherd were announced on Monday, but hours later it was changed from a public to a private event.
"The family thanks those who want to extend their personal wishes, but the church is at capacity and cannot accommodate any unexpected guests," publicist Linda Dozoretz said in a statement.
A public memorial is scheduled for Dec. 9 in Los Angeles, Dozoretz said.
Clooney will be buried in her native Kentucky on Friday. The former "girl singer" is survived by her five children with ex-husband Jose Ferrer, an Academy Award-winning actor who died in 1992.
Rosemary Clooney
Sad Story, Regardless
Bill Cosby
A former friend of funnyman Bill Cosby says he evicted her from his home after 19 years because the tragic comic fell under the spell of a mysterious guru who practices bizarre religious rites.
Gladys Rodgers, 62, who was booted from the Philadelphia-area home Saturday, said Cosby's British-born spiritual adviser, David Kirby, had convinced the comic that she's the one who performs sorcery.
Rodgers, a Methodist, said Kirby told Cosby that she employed blood and feathers in rituals he claimed were used to gain control of the beloved comedian.
The enigmatic Kirby - who could not be reached for comment yesterday - has been a part of Cosby and his wife Camille's inner circle since the tragic slaying of their only son, Ennis, in a 1997 California highway heist.
The cigar-smoking humorist said in court papers that Rodgers was kicked out because she allowed her son, Tony, to live at the estate after his marriage disintegrated.
For Rodgers - who had been close with both Cosbys since the 1960s - the eviction was devastating.
She was an integral part of the Cosby family who went on vacations with them and took care of their children.
While she was never paid, she told the Philly paper that Cosby promised she could always live on his leafy, two-acre estate in an upper middle-class neighborhood.
On June 5, Cosby and Kirby - whom the family calls ‘Lama' - came to the estate. The two men asked her to leave while Kirby investigated.
Bill Cosby
The 'Whole' Story
Cosby's life no sitcom these days
What Passes For Justice
Pakistan
A Pakistani tribal council ordered an 18-year-old girl to be gang-raped in order to punish her family after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a higher class tribe, police said Tuesday.
The private Human Rights Commission of Pakistan demanded that all those involved in the rape, which took place June 22 in the village of Meerwala in southern Punjab province, be punished.
Police said the victim's father had filed criminal charges against the four men involved in the case. Police said they picked up eight relatives of the suspects to pressure the perpetrators into surrendering.
According to the victim, the Mastoi tribe demanded punishment after her 11-year-old brother was seen walking unchaperoned with a Mastoi girl in a deserted part of
the village. The boy and his sister are from the lower class Gujar tribe.
The Mastoi tribe called a meeting of the tribal council, which ordered the girl to be raped to avenge their tribal honor. The teen-ager said she was taken to a hut
and assaulted as hundreds of Mastois stood outside laughing and cheering.
"The increasing incidents of terrible atrocities against women are a terrible reflection on the state of society and the status of women within it," commission chairman
Afrasiab Khattak said in a statement.
Pakistan
Expensive Fruit
Lychee
A Chinese woman looks at a lychee that was sold for a record 555,000 yuan ($67,050) in Zengchen City in China's affluent southern province of Guangdong, June 30, 2002.
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
Fairly freshly updated - 'The Osbournes' ~ Page 2 !
'The Osbournes' ~ Page 1
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