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Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Correction
Re: Feces/Fetus
Marty - as much as I love the Bush fetus/feces story - it's a big fat
hoax. I don't what is sadder - that it's believable or that it's a hoax.
Urban Legends Reference Pages@snopes.com
Heather
houndog2
Oh, poop, Heather!
Guess it was one of those 'sounded too good to be true' things.
Thanks for the correction.
Reader Correction
Re: Feces/Fetus
Chimpy And The Fetus Misspeak
As much as I wish it were true, Chimpy the Unelectred Fraud never said the
"feces" comment:
Urban Legends Reference Pages@snopes.com
Daniel in H-Town
Well, crap, Daniel!
I'm usually not so gullible, but, it made sense to me.
Thanks for the correction.
Reader Correction
Re: Feces/Fetus
Marty,
Hilarious, but, sadly, untrue. I ran the story through
Snopes. They're
generally pretty reliable and said it was absolutely untrue...even went on
the explain the factual basis for the whole affair in comments made at a
Knights of Malta appearance by Ronnie Raygun in January 1989 (I think.)
You do great work and I enjoy your page.
Peace.
Bob K
Well, shit, Bob!
That'll teach me to get in a hurry.
Thaaks for the correction and the kind words.
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'Simple Fears'
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Dear Leader
Reader Comment
Re: Michael Moore
Don't know whether I had told you or not--I've made a pledge (to myself, to friends) to see Fahrenheit 9/11 once a week while it's in theaters. This past weekend was my 5th time to see it.
It's my personal protest--to support freedom of speech, to support Moore, to support the film distributors who defied Disney's wishes, to support the theaters that are showing the film.
It's pretty amazing watching the audiences each time as well as watching the film. The first weekend, a South Korean journalist asked to interview me before I left the auditorium. I've been pretty amazed at how well attended it is out here in Virginia. It's pretty much Republican territory around here, but either the Democrats are crawling out of hiding or the Republicans have a LOT to be afraid of.
Biggest laugh is always the line about Ashcroft losing to a dead guy.
Linda >^..^<
Great idea, Linda!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Very hot inland, nice along the coast.
Monday evening we lost our new lizard - the one with no name.
Had his terrarium out with Jo the (lucky) lizard's - it appears that a cat sat on top of it, and the screened lid buckled.
There was no blood (or other lizard residue), so we hope/believe he escaped into the yard when he had the chance.
The kid is pretty bummed, regardless.
Poet and activist Dr. Maya Angelou gives a thumbs up to the delegation after her speech during the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, July 27, 2004. Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry is expected to formally accept the party's nomination July 29.
Photo by Brian Snyder
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Moose & Squirrel
Relishes Role As Delegate
Jerry Springer
The attention starts early in the morning, as curious delegates eye the familiar-looking man with the wavy hair and winning smile conducting back-to-back interviews.
Jerry Springer, politician-turned-king of trash TV, is relishing his role as a delegate to the Democratic convention and potential candidate for Ohio governor in 2006.
In the first couple of days of the convention - his ninth since 1972 - Springer appeared to be everywhere at once and always a center of attention. After a short morning speech Tuesday to Ohio's delegation, he was off to tape NBC's "Today" show. Hotel fliers advertised a Tuesday night appearance at Boston's Foggy Goggle pub.
For the rest, Jerry Springer
Everywhere at Convention
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck has made so many appearances during the Democratic National Convention, you'd think he was the one running for office.
But the star of the blockbusters "Pearl Harbor" and "Armageddon" - and the bombs "Gigli" and "Jersey Girl" - says he simply recognizes the power of his celebrity and wants to use it to help John Kerry get elected to the presidency.
for more, Ben Affleck
Statue Dedicated in Chicago
Bob Newhart
"Hi Bob!" could become a popular phrase on Michigan Avenue. A statue commemorating comedian Bob Newhart's role as Dr. Robert Hartley on "The Bob Newhart Show" was unveiled Tuesday in downtown Chicago near the office building shown in the TV classic's opening credits.
"Hi Bob!" was a frequent greeting on the show, which was set in Chicago and ran on CBS from 1972 to 1978. Robert Hartley was a successful psychologist living in a high-rise with his wife, Emily, a schoolteacher played by Suzanne Pleshette.
Newhart, a native of suburban Oak Park, said he was honored by the statue and viewed it as a "tribute to the writing and to the cast." He said he thinks the sitcom is still being enjoyed because its humor was observational instead of topical.
Bob Newhart
I remember playing 'Hi Bob' - anybody else?
Folk trio and activists Peter, Paul and Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Tuesday, July 27, 2004. From left are Mary Travers, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey.
Photo by Elise Amendola
Will Never Return To The Stage
Siegfried & Roy
The Siegfried & Roy show will never return to the stage after Roy Horn was mauled on stage by a tiger last year, a German-based spokeswoman for the duo was quoted as saying Tuesday.
Horn "has good and bad days," the German weekly Neue Post quoted spokeswoman Claudia Dressler, as saying. "Nobody knows if he'll ever the be the same old Roy again. But one thing is for sure: Siegfried & Roy will never return to the stage with their show."
Horn is still using a wheelchair, the Neue Post reported. He is having twice-weekly physical therapy to strengthen muscles in his left leg and is able to walk several hundred steps with a walker, it added.
Siegfried & Roy
No More Bond?
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan appears to be turning in his license to kill, says Entertainment Weekly. "That's it," Brosnan told EW.com. "I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond."
In an interview on the magazine's Web site, posted Tuesday, the Irish-born actor said 2002's "Die Another Day" was his last mission on her majesty's secret service.
But the 51-year-old's statement might be a negotiating ploy. Original Bond Sean Connery quit for a whole movie before being lured back for bigger bucks. If true, England-based Eon Productions, which produces the Bond flicks, must find another star to carry 007's Walther PPK in the 21st Bond movie, scheduled for release next year.
Pierce Brosnan
Cult TV Show Becoming A Cult Film
'Strangers With Candy'
Production has begun on a movie based on Comedy Central's now defunct cult TV show "Strangers With Candy." The film has a working title - not surprisingly, "Strangers With Candy: The Movie."
The film is now shooting in New Jersey. "Strangers With Candy," the TV show, aired on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2000. The comedy show's cast reunites for the story of Jerri Blank, an ex-junkie who returns to high school at age 46.
Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert (of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show") together wrote the script and star in the big-screen adaptation.
'Strangers With Candy'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Talk Show Canceled
Ryan Seacrest
The syndicated TV series "On-Air with Ryan Seacrest" is going off the air, permanently.
Seacrest was unable to turn his visibility as host of Fox's "American Idol" into success for the talk and music show, and low ratings led Twentieth Television on Tuesday to announce the end of production.
Seacrest will remain with "American Idol," the hit talent-search series which returns for its fourth season in January. He'll also keep his day job as host of the Los Angeles radio show, "On-Air with Ryan Seacrest," and with the weekly countdown show "American Top 40."
Ryan Seacrest
A plaque commemorating British-born comedian Bob Hope is unveiled exactly a year after his death at St Georges Park in Bristol, England, Tuesday July 27, 2004. Hope, who died of pneumonia at his home in Toluca Lake, Calif., two months after his 100th birthday, lived in Bristol for two years when he was a child before moving to America with his family at the age of four.
Photo by Barry Batchelor
Moves $50 Million in Merchandise
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne has hit $50 million in merchandise sales -- a record for a heavy metal performer, according to merchandising and licensing company Signatures Network.
During the past decade, the British rocker amassed $35 million from selling merchandise at concerts like his Ozzfest roadshow and $15 million at retail. Among the best-selling products are black Osbourne T-shirts, slippers and action figures.
Ozzy Osbourne
Huge Draw in Boston
Michael Moore
They started lining up to hear Michael Moore at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, five hours before the movie director delivered a fiery speech to a packed hotel ballroom with hundreds of people locked outside.
At a Democratic convention where speakers have been warned not to bash Bush too hard, Moore has struck a very different tone. He calls the resident and his allies "hate-riots, not patriots." But Bush is far from his only target.
Some of Moore's most bitter words are reserved for the U.S. media, which he says failed to ask tough questions about Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and for being "cheerleaders and shills" for the war.
Michael Moore
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
50 Million Hits
9/11 Site
At least 50 million hits have been recorded on the Web site of the Sept. 11 commission. Meanwhile, another 200,000 copies of the book version of the commission's report on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have been ordered, bringing the total in print to 800,000, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Publication of the $10 paperback coincided with the release July 22 of a report by a bipartisan panel on the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history. Citing multiple government failures, the commission called for a national counterterrorism center headed by a Cabinet-level director to centralize intelligence efforts.
An estimated 350,000 copies had been sold through Sunday, according to Brockett, and the book for days has topped the best seller lists for Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com. A hardcover edition, with a suggested price of $29.95, is scheduled to come out at the end of August. Brockett said the hardcover will include an extensive index, which the paperback does not have, and will be sold primarily to libraries.
9/11 Site
Actor Jerry Stiller chats with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog from Conan O'Brien's Late Night TV show following a forum about arts, education and the 21st century economy, Tuesday, July 27, 2004 in Boston.
Photo by Lisa Poole
Fate in Dispute
'Washington Merry-Go-Round'
United Feature Syndicate and Jack Anderson's son Kevin say "Washington Merry-Go-Round" has ended. Douglas Cohn says Jack Anderson gave him the right to continue the column under the "Washington Merry-Go-Round" name. Kevin says he doesn't think this authorization is valid.
Anderson himself? The renowned 81-year-old journalist is seriously ill with Parkinson's disease, and did not return an E&P phone message left yesterday.
Things started going public Friday. That morning, United announced the end of "Washington Merry-Go-Round," the investigative column started by Drew Pearson in 1932 and joined by Anderson in 1947. Cohn -- who worked with Anderson for 18 years and became his column partner in 1999 -- subsequently announced Friday afternoon that he and Eleanor Clift were continuing "Washington Merry-Go-Round" for U.S. News Syndicate in McLean, Va. That didn't sit well with United and Kevin Anderson, an attorney based in Salt Lake City.
For more, 'Washington Merry-Go-Round'
Cowboy Actor Arrested in Bar Shooting
Robert Sorrells
A veteran TV western actor has been arrested for opening fire and killing a man in a bar near Los Angeles, police said on Tuesday.
Robert Sorrells, who guest starred in such 1950s TV fare as "Gunsmoke," "Death Valley Days" and "Bonanza," walked into the Regency Lounge in Simi Valley on Saturday night and began shooting, police said. The motive for the shooting was not known, Simi Valley police Sgt. Joseph May said.
Bar patron Arthur DeLong, 45, was shot in the back and died on the floor of the bar, and Edward Sanchez, 40, was wounded in the back and face, May said.
Robert Sorrells
Bette Midler, right, jokes with Disney CEO Michael Eisner, left, as they plant a tree during renovation of the East Harlem Community Garden in New York Tuesday, July 27, 2004. Midler and Eisner were on hand to show support for the beginning of renovation efforts at the park.
Photo by Gregory Bull
Sentenced to Rehab
Courtney Love
Courtney Love was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in drug rehab, closing one chapter in a troubled saga that began when she was accused of trying to break into her ex-boyfriend's home while high on cocaine.
Superior Court Judge Patricia M. Schnegg gave the rocker until Oct. 29 to enroll in a drug counseling program, which will require frequent drug testing. She will be permitted to travel, but will be barred from taking non-prescription drugs, drinking alcohol or being in places that serve alcohol.
Love still faces a felony case in Beverly Hills Superior Court for allegedly possessing illegal painkillers. She could face up to three years and eight months in prison if convicted of possessing hydrocodone and oxycodone.
Courtney Love
Says He Is the Real Pope
Pope Gregorio XVII
Papal pretender "Gregorio XVII" is leader of a self-styled church in Spain who says God crowned him after Pope Paul VI's 1978 death, that Satan controls the Vatican and that the devil will crucify him at the start of an apocalyptic end of an era.
There were some 300 worshipers attending services on a recent Reuters visit to Gregorio's church in El Palmar de Troya, a vast cathedral-like complex of domes, columns and arches perched on a hill in Spain's dusty southern Andalusia region.
Gregorio's congregation rejects reforms made by the Catholic Church at the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council, such as saying mass in local languages instead of Latin and dialogue with other religions and branches of Christianity.
For a lot more, Pope Gregorio XVII
New Video Game
'Playboy: The Mansion'
Carmen Electra will RSVP for your party if you push the right buttons. Average Joes and Janes will be able to digitally mingle among celebs like Electra and Tom Arnold when the "Playboy: The Mansion" video game hits stores this winter.
In the game, players don the pajamas of Playboy impresario Hugh Hefner and are given the task of building the Playboy empire by developing contacts, keeping the bunnies happy, selling magazines and, of course, throwing lavish parties.
Celebrities featured in the game include David Copperfield, Willa Ford, Jose Canseco, Uncle Kracker, Andrew WK and Melissa Joan Hart. But gamers shouldn't expect to have their way with the stars.
Arnold's character, for example, is only programmed to play sports and smoke cigars, according to senior producer Eric Marcoullier. But Sum 41 guitarist Dave Baksh's digital clone will "play sports, drink, get drunk, make out and have sex with women, smoke cigars, but he won't jump on the trampoline."
'Playboy: The Mansion'
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A baby koala named 'Cooee' is held by it's mother at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, July 26, 2004. A report into the dangerous levels of koalas present on Kangaroo Island, located south of the South Australian city of Adelaide, will be released by the Australian Koala Foundation on Wednesday, with the culling of the colony one of the issues to be discussed.
Photo by David Gray
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