Bartcop Entertainment - Wednesday, 24 July, 2002

Wednesday

24 July, 2002

big hammer - bigger hammer

(Updated Daily)
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Thanks, again, Tim!

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Weekly Review

HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW

July 23, 2002

Three days after Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan blamed "infectious greed" for the faltering of the stock market but declared the economy essentially sound, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 400 points, completing a two-week period during which it lost 15 percent of its value.

President George W. Bush worried that Americans were getting too caught up in the recent spate of corporate scandals; he opined that since September 11 "I believe people have taken a step back and asked, 'What's important in life?' You know, the bottom line and this corporate America stuff, is that important? Or is serving your neighbor, loving your neighbor like you'd like to be loved yourself?"

Hundreds of women ended a peaceful ten-day occupation of ChevronTexaco's main oil terminal in Nigeria that resulted in the company's promise to build schools, clinics, town halls, electricity and water systems, and chicken farms for the local residents; about 700 workers had been trapped inside the terminal. "I give one piece of advice to all women in all countries," said the leader of the demonstration. "They shouldn't let any company cheat them."

A family sued a Virginia Pizza Hut for $2 million, claiming that they were refused service because they are black; the restaurant insists that it had run out of cheese and could not produce any more pizzas. Noted an attorney for the company, "It was a cheese issue, not a race issue."

Pfizer Inc. announced that it would acquire another drug maker, Pharmacia, for $60 billion in stock, creating the world's most powerful drug conglomerate.

A Walgreens pharmacy in Florida sent a 16-year-old boy an unsolicited one-month supply of Prozac.

A hoax voucher circulated on the Internet, allowing people to sample Starbucks' new "creme frappuccino" for free for several hours before the coupon was identified as fake. "It's hard to believe this is real," said one Washington Starbucks employee. "We've run out of the vanilla creme frappuccinos. It's all gone."

Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review

--Margaret Cordi

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

KNBC in LA is pushing 'Dr. Phil' (Oprah's resident guru, Dr. Phil McGraw, who will have his own syndicated show this fall) big time. For some unfathomable reason they are trying to rhyme 'phil' & 'real'....As in 'get real with Dr. Phil'.

Mo, the female alligator lizard, molted today. It was her first since moving into the house. We added it to the collection - a mayo jar with several of Jo's shed skins. Someday it'll be a science project (or so I keep telling myself).


Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts with '60 Minutes II', then a fresh 'Big Brother 3', and wraps with '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Dana Carvey and black bear expert Ben Kilham.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are William Shatner and comic Kevin Seccia.

NBC debuts 'Meet My Folks', then offers reruns of 'The West Wing' and 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay is Christian Slater.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Sigourney Weaver and Rich Hall.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Jennifer Esposito, Rick Fox, and Nelly.

ABC starts the night with 2 reruns of 'My Wife & Kid's', then the 3rd (and final) installment of 'Stephen King's ''The Shining'''.

The WB has the movie 'Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery'.

Faux has a fresh '30 Seconds To Fame', then a fresh 'Meet The Marks', a rerun 'Bernie Mac', and wraps with a fresh 'American Idol: The Search For A Superstar'.

UPN has a rerun of 'Enterprise' and then a rerun of 'Buffy' (where she gets a new job at a restaurant).


Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



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At The Premiere

'Austin Powers in Goldmember'

Mike Myers (bottom row, 2nd L), who stars in the motion picture comedy "Austin Powers in Goldmember", poses with other principal cast members at the premiere of the film at Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, July 22, 2002. Kneeling from left are cast members Quincy Jones, Myers, Robert Wagner, Verne Troyer, Michael Caine, Mindy Sterling, Fred Savage and Seth Green. Standing from left are cast members Michael York and Beyonce Knowles, director Jay Roach and producer John Lyons.
Photo by Jim Ruymen

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Interesting Link

Medieval Macabre

Medieval Macabre

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Man With An Opinion

Larry Hagman

Larry Hagman has been living clean since his liver transplant in 1995, but he remembers his hallucinogens fondly.

The former "Dallas" star, who recently served as chairman of the Transplant Games (pitting fellow transplant patients against one another), tells Webster Hall's Baird Jones:

"I would take LSD again if I knew I was going to die. I never had a bad trip. LSD is very liberating, gets you into another state, your next level of existence. It showed me that there was another world. People should know that there is another dimension to existence which can be explored."

Larry Hagman

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Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

A New URL, A New Look & Even More Information!

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In The Hospital

Chris ''Tweety'' Matthews

Chris Matthews, host of the MSNBC talk show "Hardball," has been hospitalized with malaria, which he may have contracted during one of his recent trips to Africa or the Middle East.

He is expected to recover and leave Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington by week's end and return to the screen next week. Mike Barnicle has been filling in as host of the nightly political talk show since Matthews entered the hospital late Monday.

"He felt fatigued, sweaty and exhausted yesterday and went into the hospital," said MSNBC spokeswoman Cheryl Daly. "He's doing fine."

Chris ''Tweety'' Matthews

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Interesting Link

Fun signs

Fun signs

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Star Foundation Benefit

Joy Behar

You don't get many laughs at political fund-raisers but Joy Behar of "The View" was quite irreverent when she emceed the Star Foundation benefit at the Southampton home of Anne Randolph Hearst the other night. Joy got a slightly shocked titter from the audience when she said that, after watching a presentation about the dangers of nuclear power plants, "I'd feel safer standing behind Lizzie Grubman when she's driving."

Among the committed crowd were honorees Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Star Jones, playwright Langford Wilson, Democratic National Committeeman Robert Zimmerman, NBC's Jill Rappaport and artist Chuck Close.

Joy Behar

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Divorced Actor To Promote Adoption

Bruce Willis

resident Bush and Bruce Willis both lent star power to a new effort to persuade would-be parents to adopt foster children. But it was Willis who flubbed his lines, not Bush.

The president said he understands that adoption itself can be a frustrating and lengthy process, and that raising an adopted child can "add to the normal challenges of one's daily life." But, pointing to members of his family and administration who have adopted, he said that taking in a foster child has enormous rewards as well.

"Adoptions changes a single life forever, and it brings countless blessings to the lives of parents," Bush said.

The adoption event in the White House's grand East Room allowed Bush to appeal to his voter base of Christian conservatives by promoting an alternative to abortion and to burnish his credentials as a "compassionate conservative" by extending a government hand to at-risk children.

Bruce Willis


This triggered something I read a while ago, and thanks to the ever-fabulous Granny C, and google, came up with this link:

''LAURA: America's First Lady, First Mother'' (Adams Media Corp., $19.95) - Review.

Scroll down to the 9th paragraph...

'' Throughout the biography there's an obvious lack of intimate details. This is especially noticeable when discussing life-turning points, such as her difficulty in conceiving the twins, the adoption process they started until she became pregnant, her husband's excessive drinking and any parenting philosophy. ''


Guess they had enough 'blessings'?

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Blasphemous, But Funny

Jesus Dress Up!

Jesus Dress Up!

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39th World Santa Claus Convention

2 Elves

Two elves seek shelter from the rain on the opening day of the 39th World Santa Claus Convention in the Bakken amusement park near Copenhagen Monday July 22. 2002. More than 100 Santa Clauses, Mrs. Clauses and their elves from Europe, South America and Asia are taking part in the three-day convention, where the delegates discuss serious matters such as the size of Christmas presents, the right date to celebrate Christmas and the proper fodder for reindeer.
Photo by Thorkild Amdi

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Host Of New TV 'Pyramid'

Donny Osmond

Singer Donny Osmond credits Regis Philbin for making it cool to be a game-show host.

Starting in September, Osmond will be the host of "Pyramid," a syndicated revival of the game shows hosted by Dick Clark in the 1970s and '80s. Clark was the host of CBS' daytime series "$25,000 Pyramid" and the syndicated "$100,000 Pyramid."

"There will not be any singing on `Pyramid,'" the 44-year-old entertainer added. "No, no, no. Ain't gonna happen."

"Pyramid" will be similar to its earlier versions, with an updated look and minor rule changes. As before, contestants will team with celebrities in a contest that involves giving clues and guessing words.

Donny Osmond

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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Yer Dinnae Ken?

''Sweet Sixteen'' & Sub-Titles

Neighbors and rivals for centuries, the Scots and the English have always had different schools and law courts. Now it seems they don't speak the same language.

A film set in Scotland may be sub-titled to help audiences south of the border follow the action, the Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday.

"Sweet Sixteen" -- a Ken Loach film about a Glasgow teenager looking forward to the release from prison of his drug addict mother -- uses amateur actors in the lead roles, prompting fears the local dialects will be difficult to follow.

When the film was shown at Cannes earlier this year it had French and English sub-titles.

"Trainspotting," the iconic drug film of the 1990s, was sub-titled for U.S. audiences because the Edinburgh accents were deemed too difficult to follow.

''Sweet Sixteen'' & Sub-Titles

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Funny Link

The Satanic Hampster Dance

The Satanic Hampster Dance

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Papal Lottery Tickets

Pope Scratchers?

A Mexican lottery salesman shows off lottery tickets for a commemorative Papal visit nine million peso (less than $1 million) draw July 23, 2002. Pope John Paul II will visit Mexico in eight days time to canonize Juan Diego, the indigenous Mexican who is said to have had the vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Photo by Daniel Aguilar

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Baby News

Marlee Matlin

Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin gave birth to Tyler Daniel Grandalski on Thursday, her third child with husband Kevin Grandalski, publicist Jessica Cohen said.

The newborn joined two other children, Sarah, 6, and Brandon, 1, from her eight-year marriage to Grandalski, a police officer.

Marlee Matlin

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Slack-Inducing Link

Bob Dobbs

Mystical Smoking Head of 'Bob'

Oh By The Frop Of His Pipe, Grant Me Vision!

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Demographics Winner

'Monk'

The USA Network, already crowing about its hit Sunday-night original series "The Dead Zone," seems to have caught lightning in a bottle for the second time with "Monk," which scored in its second week with 4.1 million viewers.

On Friday, more people watched "Monk" -- starring Tony Shalhoub as a detective who's riddled with phobias -- than any other show on basic cable that night, which was also true for the show's debut two-hour episode on July 12.

That episode averaged 4.76 million viewers for the two hours, but the second-week decline was well within the usual acceptable falloff following a high-rated premiere.

The average rating of the two initial weeks is 115% higher than that of the movies that ran in the time period on USA for the previous six weeks, 134% higher in adults 25-54 (USA's main demographic target) and 115% higher in adults 18-49, Madison Avenue's favorite demo.

'Monk'

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BartCop TV!

BC TV

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Redo in View

'The Monkees'

"The Monkees" may be returning to NBC.

The network is in discussions with the creator of "American Idol" to revive the format, featuring a new American boy band in the roles made famous by Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork. NBC would ready the project for a fall 2003 launch.

Simon Fuller, who also created and managed the Spice Girls, has secured rights to the "Monkees" concept and name. "The Monkees" also served as inspiration for Fuller's teen band SClub7, a pop group of seven members who starred in their own international TV show, released a number of hit records in the U.K. and even designed their own clothing line.

The updated "Monkees" would include sketch comedy and music elements featuring four handpicked male stars, similar to the original series, which aired on NBC from 1966 to 1968.

The original show continues to hold cult status, while two original members are touring under the Monkees moniker. "The Monkees" was previously revived in 1987 as the short-lived syndicated comedy "The New Monkees."

'The Monkees'

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Fun Link

Pagan Name Generator

The Pagan Name Generator

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Mass Circumcision

Kabul

Turkish troops leading the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan won friends among hundreds of Afghan families Tuesday after army doctors carried out a mass circumcision of boys who had missed the important Muslim ceremony for one reason or another.

Army doctors from the prestigious Gulhame Military Medical academy in Turkey circumcised more than 90 boys Tuesday and plan to perform the operation on up to 200 others over the next two days.

Most Afghan boys are circumcised between the age of two and five by religious elders who say a prayer before removing the foreskin with a knife -- without anaesthetic.

But the Turkish operation -- while yielding to tradition -- was a strictly medical procedure with a local anaesthetic being applied before the foreskin was removed with a sort of soldering- iron gun that cuts through the flesh and seals the wound behind it at the same time.

Before the operation, the boys were given a huge party with special Turkish cakes and treats. A band played children's' songs as religious elders walked among the boys, muttering prayers and patting them on their heads.

Once the operation was complete, the boys were given a traditional white tunic, dressed in a large nappy and sent on their way -- clutching a bag of presents from a Turkish charity that raised money for the ceremony.

Each bag contained a leather football, a pair of boots and a full soccer strip -- in the colors of the Turkish national team that surprised the world by finishing third in the World Cup won by Brazil last month.

Mass Circumcision

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Wraps Book Deal

Marion "Suge" Knight

Riverhead Books has secured world rights to West Coast rap entrepreneur Marion "Suge" Knight's autobiography.

Set for release in 2003, the as-yet-untitled book will chronicle Knight's emergence as a rap music impresario, as well as the controversies that have swirled around his career. Knight founded Death Row Records in 1992 and later served a five-year prison sentence for assault-related charges.

Knight said the book will examine his sometimes tumultuous relationships with such characters as Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, Snoop Dogg, Vanilla Ice, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and John F. Kennedy Jr., as well as his years in prison.

Riverhead VP and co-editorial director Julie Grau called the book "a classic American rags-to-riches saga that also illuminates the most significant revolution in popular music of the past several decades. He is a singular combination of showman, businessman and gangster, and a natural-born storyteller."

Marion "Suge" Knight

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Yogic Flying In Israel

Levitating?

Israeli experts in Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying demonstrate their technique in Tel Aviv Tuesday July 23, 2002. The experts claim that Israel needs a permanent group of 500 people to meditate in order to neutralize the acute ethnic and religious tensions that fuel violence in the region.
Photo by Eitan Hess-Ashkenazi

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Fun Link

TechnoPagan Name Generator

TechnoPagan Name Generator

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Commit Suicide

406 Sheep

More than 400 sheep leapt to their deaths this weekend in mountainous southeastern France — likely a panicked attempt to escape from a pack of wolves, police said.

The sheep have lain in a ravine near the Mercantour national park since Saturday, and police were burning them on Tuesday. Officials discovered wolf bite marks on some of the carcasses.

Police said there was no risk of contamination to the water supply.

The local agriculture department started a procedure to reimburse the owner, who lost 406 animals — nearly his entire herd.

406 Sheep

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Fourth Place Again

ABC & Ratings

The dog days of summer have turned ABC into a fourth-place network. And without its news division, the picture would be even bleaker.

Buoyed by the hit reality show, "American Idol," Fox jumped past ABC into third place among viewers last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. It was the fifth time in six weeks Fox beat ABC.

Last week's most popular show, with just under 10 million viewers, was a rerun of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" on CBS.

For the week, CBS averaged 7.83 million viewers (5.5 rating, 10 share) to edge NBC's 7.8 million (5.3, 10). Fox averaged 6.7 million (4.1, 8), ABC averaged 6.1 million (also 4.1, 8), UPN had 2.8 million (1.8, 3), the WB had 2.3 million (1.6, 3) and Pax TV had 1.1 million (0.8, 1).

A ratings point represents 1,055,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 105.5 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.

For the week of July 15-21, the top 10 shows, their networks and ratings: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.4; "Law & Order," NBC, 8.0; "Everybody Loves Ramond," CBS, 7.8; "Dateline NBC-Tuesday," NBC, 7.6; "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.1; "48 Hours-Monday," CBS, 7.0; "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 7.0; "Becker," CBS, 6.9; "Primetime Thursday," ABC, 6.8; "20/20," ABC, 6.4; "Dog Eat Dog," NBC, 6.4.

ABC & Ratings

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'John Walker's Blues'

Lyrics

I'm just an American boy raised on MTV

And I've seen all those kids in the soda pop ads

But none of 'em looked like me

So I started lookin' around for a light out of the dim

And the first thing I heard that made sense was the word

Of Mohammed, peace be upon him

A shadu la ilaha illa Allah

There is no God but God

If my daddy could see me now — chains around my feet

He don't understand that sometimes a man

Has to fight for what he believes

And I believe God is great all praise due to him

And if I should die I'll rise up to the sky

Just like Jesus, peace be upon him

We came to fight the Jihad and our hearts were pure and strong

As death filled the air we all offered up prayers

And prepared for our martyrdom

But Allah had some other plan some secret not revealed

Now they're draggin' me back with my head in a sack

To the land of the infidel

Lyrics

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In Memory

Dave Carter

Dave Carter, a singer and songwriter who with partner Tracy Grammer was one of the fastest-rising acts in contemporary folk music, has died at the age of 49.

Carter, who had been set to perform with Grammer on Saturday at the Green River Festival in Greenfield, collapsed at a hotel Friday morning and died later at a hospital, apparently from a heart attack.

Among the Oregon-based duo's albums was "Tanglewood Tree," which came out in 2000 and featured songs ranging from the ebullient "Happytown" to the traditional-sounding "Hey Conductor" and the haunting "Farewell to Bitterroot Valley." They followed it up with another album, "Drum Hat Buddha," released in 2001.

While their sales were modest by big-name standards, many predicted they would become important stars. The Los Angeles Times called Carter "a major lyrical talent," and the British magazine Folk Roots said his songs were "destined to become the stuff of legend."

"He was such a force," said Jim Olsen, the president of Carter and Grammer's label, Signature Sounds.

Carter cited influences as diverse as Carlos Castaneda, Dylan Thomas and Townes Van Zandt, and, with a touch of humor, called his own songs "post-modern mythic American music."

He and Grammer teamed up after they met in 1996. Carter played guitar, Grammer the violin. She said that the first time they sang together, "It was like one ribbon of song." Their first CD, "When I Go," came out in 1998.

Joan Baez had recently embraced Carter's music and planned to record several of his songs. In an article on the duo in The Boston Globe last fall, Baez compared Carter to Bob Dylan, praising his ability to write songs that are "available to other people."

Born in Oxnard, Calif., Carter worked as a mathematician and computer programmer until 1994, when he began pursuing a music career full time. He released a solo album, "Snake-Handling Man," on Red River Records in 1996.

Dave Carter

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In Memory

William Pierce

White supremacist leader William Pierce, whose book "The Turner Diaries" is believed to have inspired Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 68.

Pierce died at his compound in Pocahontas County, said his business manager, Bob DeMarias. He became ill about three weeks ago and his kidneys failed, DeMarias said.

The novel, which some have called a grisly blueprint for a bloody race war, includes a chapter entitled the "Day of the Rope." It describes white corpses hung from every street corner with placards reading, "I defiled my race."

William Pierce

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In Memory

Leo McKern

Leo McKern, the Australian actor who gained fame as a curmudgeonly barrister in "Rumpole of the Bailey," died Tuesday at the age of 82, his agent said.

McKern, who had been ill for some time, died at a nursing home near his home in Bath in western England, said his agent, Richard Hatton.

McKern starred as Horace Rumpole in 44 episodes between 1975 and 1992, playing a crafty lawyer giving to quoting poetry, swilling "Chateau Thames Embankment" at Pomeroy's wine bar, and dueling at home with his wife Hilda — "she who must be obeyed."

The distinctive appearance of McKern's fleshy face was due in part to a glass left eye, the result of an accident when he was a 15-year-old engineer's apprentice.

"Rumpole," created by British lawyer John Mortimer, won a global audience, and McKern resigned himself to the inevitable typecasting.

Actor Peter Bowles, who played Guthrie Featherstone in "Rumpole," called McKern "one of those rare actors who had no pomposity. He wasn't a luvvie. He never took himself seriously and had always kept the child within him.

Born Reginald McKern in Sydney, he moved to Britain in 1946, two years after making his stage debut.

Some of his early British stage appearances came at the Old Vic Theater between 1949 and 1952, and at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1952-54.

In 1967 and 1968, McKern was one of several actors who played No. 2, the authoritarian figure in the cult television show "The Prisoner," starring Patrick McGoohan. McKern appeared several times as the character.

McKern's film roles included "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), The Beatles' "Help!" (1965), "A Man for all Seasons" (1966), "Ryan's Daughter" (1971), and "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1983).

His last film role was as a bishop in "The Story of Father Damien" in 1999. His reminiscences, "Just Resting," were published in 1983, the same year he was awarded the Order of Australia.

He is survived by his wife, Jane Holland, and two daughters. A private family funeral was planned, Hatton said.

Leo McKern

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In Memory

Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok, the rabbi-turned-author whose Orthodox upbringing inspired "The Chosen" and other best-selling novels that explored the clash between religious and secular life, died Tuesday. He was 73.

Potok, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2000, died at his home in suburban Merion, said Sharon Stumacher, executive director of Potok's synagogue, Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El.

Like Herman Wouk, Potok was highly regarded within the Jewish community, but less so within the general literary community, especially compared to more secular Jewish-American authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.

However, his storytelling was popular among readers of many faiths.

Potok, who counted James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh and Ernest Hemingway among the authors who most inspired him, recalled that teachers at his Jewish parochial school were displeased with his taking time away from studying the Talmud by reading literature.

Potok's novels often illustrate the conflict between spiritual and secular worlds. "The Chosen," published in 1967 and Potok's first and best-known novel, follows the friendship between two Jewish boys from different religious backgrounds.

It was made into a movie in 1982 starring Robby Benson as the young man from Brooklyn who breaks out of the Hassidic world through his interest in psychology. It also was made into an off-Broadway play.

"The Chosen" earned the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and its sequel published in 1969, "The Promise," won the Athenaem Prize. His 1972 novel, "My Name Is Asher Lev," explored the conflicts faced by an Orthodox Jew who becomes a painter.

Potok also wrote plays, children's literature, nonfiction, and short stories. In 1999, he received an O. Henry Award for the short story "Moon."

After five novels, Potok researched and wrote his first nonfiction book, "Wanderings: Chaim Potok's Story of the Jews," which traced back Jewish history to the family of Abraham 4,000 years ago.

Potok also assisted the late violinist Isaac Stern with his autobiography, "My First Seventy-nine Years."

He was born Herman Harold Potok in the Bronx, the eldest son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. Raised in the Orthodox tradition, Potok embraced Conservative Judaism as a young adult and was eventually ordained a Conservative rabbi in 1954.

Potok graduated from Yeshiva University in 1950 with a degree in English, then attended the Jewish Theological Seminary and was ordained a rabbi four years later. He served as an Army chaplain during the Korean War and in 1959 enrolled at Penn, where he received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1965.

He also was editor in chief of the Jewish Publication Society of America, where he later became special projects editor, and taught at Penn, Bryn Mawr College and Johns Hopkins University.

He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Adena Sarah Mosevitzky, daughters Rena and Naama, and son Akiva.

Chaim Potok

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Wild Boar & Cows

New Family

A baby wild boar, orphaned when hunters killed its mother has found a new family with a herd of cows in the village of Fleury-la-Foet near Rouen in northern France. Cattle farmer Andre Vieillard said that the young boar, about 10 months old, was taking milk from the cows but the cows had to lie down to make sure he could feed. The piglet, seen in this July 18, 2002 photo, is rapidly becoming a celebrity amongst the villagers and will stay with the herd at least until September.
Photo by Robert Chalaux

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