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Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
August 13, 2002
The Bush Administration warned foreign diplomats that their countries
could lose all military aid unless they pledge never to turn over
American soldiers to the International Criminal Court.
A spokesman for
Representative Tom DeLay, who wrote the provision of the antiterrorism
law that authorizes such threats, said that "this is just an effective
tool, and we have said numerous times that we have to do whatever it
takes to protect our service members from this rogue court."
Vice President Dick Cheney told Iraqi opposition leaders that the United
States was committed to overthrowing Saddam Hussein and installing a
democratic replacement, who would then be treated as a major ally.
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder announced that he was opposed to
an American war in Iraq.
House majority leader Dick Armey observed
that an unprovoked attack on Iraq would violate international law: "It
would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we
should be as a nation."
The Justice Department said it would not use
mailmen to spy on citizens as part of TIPS, its Terror Information and
Prevention System.
Calls to the government's TIPS number, it was
discovered, were being answered by the "America's Most Wanted"
television program. "We've been asked to take the FBI's TIPS calls for
them," a reporter was told.
The Justice Department defied a federal
judge's order to hand over documents to support the classification of
an Afghan prisoner as an "enemy combatant."
President Bush's doctors
said he was in better shape now than he was last year.
The New York
Times reported that Adolf Hitler loved money and died rich.
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
-- Roger D. Hodge
Fun Link
from Alex
Flori-Duh! (presented by Camp Chaos)
Cool Site
Arbusto.com
Arbusto.com (formerly known as the Washingtoon Times)
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Finalizing plans for the big BartFest in Vegas. Woo hoo. I'm gonna be there - are you?
Watched 'The Rerun Show'. Their 'The Jeffersons' made me laugh out loud. Have a pal with Weezie's voice. She gets so pissed when she answers the phone &
is asked if her wife is home. Oh well, the local branch of Sweet Adelines' sure appreciate her!
Also watched some of Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert In Central Park' from 1981 on KCET, PBS for LA. Now, I'm waiting for the flashbacks to subside. ; )
Leno had a good line - talking about 'Mr.-Uniter-Not-A-Dividers' gathering at Baylor, and summed it up with ''Yeah, whenever I think of government policy that works, I think of Waco''.
Today, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', then a fresh 'Big Brother 3', and then '48 Hours'.
On a rerun Dave, scheduled guests are Will Smith, U.S. World Cup soccer star Landon Donovan, and Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroads Ensemble.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers is Comic Freddy Soto.
NBC has a 'Trifecta' of reruns - 'Crossing Jordan', 'The West Wing', and 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Arsenio Hall and 100-year-old diver Viola Cady Krahn.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Kevin Pollak and Jeremy Northam.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Carla Gugino, Heather Mitts, and Filter.
ABC offers a double dose of reruns of 'Jim', then a double dose of reruns of 'Drew Carey', and wraps the night with a fresh 'ICU: Arkansas Children's Hospital'.
The WB has the movie 'Sol Goode'.
Faux has a fresh '30 Seconds To Fame', then a fresh 'Meet The Marks', followed by a rerun 'Bernie Mac', and then a fresh 'American Idol: Search For A Superstar'.
UPN offers a double-header of 'Enterprise' reruns.
NICK has a 4-hour block of 'All In The Family'.
TCM has one of my dad's favorites - 'Sgt. York'. Sgt. York was the most decorated American soldier of WW I (Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier of WW II).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Waco, TX
Open Forum
Two protestors, one dressed as Vice resident Dick Cheney, center, and the other as resident Bush march in front of a sign saying "End Corporate Rule" in Waco,
Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2002, where resident Bush was holding his economic forum.
Photo by Tony Gutierrez
Fights Gay-Bashing
Green Lantern
The comic book company that created Superman and Batman has a cutting-edge new story line: a gay teenager is the victim of a hate crime.
DC Comics' "Green Lantern" No. 154 hits newsstands in September — with main character Terry Berg beaten almost to death on a street.
Terry actually emerged as a gay character in 2001 in issue No. 137, which was cited by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation as the year's best comic book. Terry is a sidekick
to Kyle Rayner — aka Green Lantern — whose emerald ring gives him supernatural powers that keep New Yorkers safe.
"Terry came out because he had a crush on Kyle. Who wouldn't? He's tall, with all those muscles," says cartoonist Judd Winick, who created the gay character at the suggestion of DC comics editor Bob Schreck,
also responsible for the "Batman" series.
If there's a lesson in dropping gay issues into "Green Lantern," one of DC's flagship titles, "it might be that it would be great for young people to see that the Green Lantern doesn't care that Terry is
gay. He's a person," says the cartoonist.
For a bit more, Green Lantern
Judge Delays Trial Date
Winona Ryder
A Beverly Hills judge on Tuesday delayed setting a trial date for Oscar nominated actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of shoplifting $6,000 worth of goods from the Saks Fifth Avenue department store last December.
Instead of setting a date for trial, as had been expected, Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox set an Aug. 26 date for pretrial motions on what evidence could be admitted during the eventual trial. Fox said he
would set a trial date within 30 days of that hearing.
Her lawyer, Mark Geragos, claims she is being prosecuted because of her celebrity and has asked that Los Angeles County prosecutors in the case be replaced with ones from the state Attorney General's office.
The Aug. 26 hearing will deal with questions relating to the admissibility of evidence and discovery issues with prosecutor Ann Rundle telling Judge Fox that Geragos had not yet presented her with certain
pieces of evidence. Geragos denied the claim.
Winona Ryder
Elvis, In Toast
Maurice Bennett
A New Zealand supermarket owner has spent two months fashioning his own unique toast to mark the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death.
Maurice Bennett has constructed a portrait measuring 62 square feet in area of the King of Rock 'n' Roll crafted out of more than 4,000 small slices of toast.
Bennett, whose previous toast portraits include Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and New Zealand rugby star Jonah Lomu, says Elvis has a special place in his heart.
Using a commercial oven capable of cooking up to 90 full-sized slices of toast at a time, Bennett grilled the bread to six different shades ranging from burned for Elvis'
hair to lightly warmed for his skin.
The idea for toast portraits first occurred to Bennett about four years ago when he was drinking with a group of friends.
For more, Maurice Bennett
411 Ticketed
Grateful Dead
The Walworth County Sheriff's Department said 411 citations were issued for violations of drug laws at last weekend's reunion of the remaining members of the Grateful Dead at Alpine Valley Music Theatre.
The department's drug enforcement unit released the following totals:
_ 269 county citations for marijuana possession, which usually nets a $407 fine for less than an ounce;
_ 80 arrests for 132 state violations, which carry heavier penalties than county citations;
_ 10 charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms and referred to the district attorney.
Police seized more than 51 pounds of marijuana with a street value of about $40,000, as well as 7,300 doses of LSD, 8.8 grams of liquid LSD, 10 pounds of hallucinogenic mushrooms, 9 grams of heroin, 82 grams of hashish, 6.3
grams of cocaine and a tank of nitrous oxide, according to the department.
Grateful Dead
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Clean & Sober
Darrell Hammond
Darrell Hammond is working on his President Bush impression, but it's for his standup act, not for Saturday Night Live.
Not that the position on Saturday Night Live is taken. With Will Ferrell calling it quits, SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels doesn't know yet who will do Bush in the upcoming season.
But he doesn't want Hammond to do it because he needs him to impersonate Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and others.
Hammond says he's ready for whatever Michaels wants him to do because he's been clean and sober for the past year.
Darrell Hammond
From Alex - 'Write Your Own Caption!'
Bonnie-Jill Lafin
Baywatch actress/model Bonnie-Jill Lafin poses with a goat during a photo shoot in Dallas, Texas for an upcoming PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals) advertising campaign, August 12, 2002. PETA plans to unveil the ad campaign, called "Nobody Likes An Eight Second Ride", at the National Rodeo
Finals in Las Vegas in December.
Photo by Jeff Mitchell
Lucy The Bat Says...
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart is spending megabucks on lawyers and publicists, but conservative guru Lucianne Goldberg has some free advice for the domestic diva. "It looks highly likely that [Stewart] will be hauled
before a Senate committee," Goldberg writes on her Web site, lucianne.com. "To avoid this, perhaps she should show up, dimple sweetly, say she meant no harm, cry prettily and dare the big, mean, old men
to pick on her. Blondes have been doing it for centuries. It works," notes blonde Goldberg.
Martha Stewart
Making Her Broadway Debut
Sally Field
Sally Field, who began her career playing a perky California teenager in the 1960s television series and later won Oscars for her "Norma Rae" and "Places in the Heart," will make her Broadway debut in "The Goat," the Tony-winning Edward Albee play.
Field and actor Bill Irwin will replace Mercedes Ruehl and Bill Pullman starting Sept. 13 in Albee's sardonic comedy about a man who has an affair with a four-legged creature. "The Goat" won the best-play Tony Award in June.
Ruehl and Pullman will play their last performances Sept. 8.
Sally Field
BartCop TV!
Admits 'Cowboy' Incident
Adam Ant
Former British pop star Adam Ant Tuesday admitted threatening pub customers who laughed at his cowboy attire and mocked him by humming the theme tune to spaghetti Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
The musician pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey criminal court to the charge of affray. Sentencing was deferred until Oct. 2 to allow time for psychiatric reports to be prepared. Three other charges
relating to the incident in January of this year -- criminal damage, assault and possession of an imitation firearm -- were dropped.
During a preliminary hearing, the court heard that the singer, whose real name is Stuart Goddard, strode into the Prince of Wales pub in north London dressed in a cowboy hat and combat jacket and with
a starting gun in his pocket.
The court was told that Goddard was intent on "pistol whipping" the husband of a woman he had befriended. His composure evaporated when customers began giggling at his outfit and mocked him by humming
the theme from the well-known Western.
Goddard left the pub and later flung a car alternator through the pub's window. He was chased by pub customers but scared them off by pulling the starting pistol from his pocket, the court heard.
Adam Ant
San Francisco
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
Attendees of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo look at booths Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2002, in San Francisco.
Photo by Ben Margot
Surrenders On Wife Beating Charge
'Stone Cold' Steve Austin
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, one of the best known characters in American professional wrestling, surrendered to law enforcement officials in Texas on Tuesday on a charge of beating his wife.
He posted $5,000 bond and was released pending future legal action, said a spokesman for the Bexar County Sheriff's Department.
Austin, 36, a Texas native whose real name is Steve Williams, turned himself in after an arrest warrant was issued charging him with assault causing bodily injury on a spouse.
'Stone Cold' Steve Austin
ABC Is #4, Again
Ratings
Left behind in the summer's reality TV boomlet, ABC can at least be comforted that football season is just around the corner
"Monday Night Football" is the network's only dependable "reality" hit, and test-run coverage of the Hall of Fame exhibition game between Houston and the New York Giants last Monday was
ABC's most popular program of the week.
Its rivals all have reality shows that have caught on this summer, particularly NBC, whose "Dog Eat Dog," "Meet My Folks" and "Crime & Punishment" all hit Nielsen Media Research's top 20 last week.
Racing toward its conclusion, Fox's "American Idol" was the third most-watched program of the week. The third edition of CBS' "Big Brother" is also a moderate hit.
Shows that didn't click with viewers last week include ABC's news narrative from an Arkansas childrens hospital, "ICU"; NBC's "Rerun Show"; and Fox's newsmagazine "Pulse."
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 Aug. 5-11, the top 10 shows, their networks and ratings:
1. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.5;
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.6;
3. "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 8.3;
4. "Law & Order," NBC, 8.0;
5. "48 Hours-Monday," CBS, 7.8;
6. "Dateline NBC-Tuesday," NBC, 7.7;
7. "Becker," CBS, 7.5;
8. "Dateline NBC-Sunday," NBC, 7.5;
9. "Dog Eat Dog," NBC, 7.4;
10. "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 7.3.
Ratings
In Memory
Ed Headrick
Ed Headrick, father of the modern Frisbee and designer of Wham-O's first "professional model" flying disc, has died. He was 78.
Headrick died at home in his sleep Monday, according to his eldest son, Ken. He had been partially paralyzed after suffering two strokes last month at a disc golf tournament in Miami.
Headrick patented toy maker Wham-O's first designs for the modern Frisbee after improving the aerodynamics of the company's initial models. After joining the company in the early 1960s, Headrick incorporated concentric grooved lines into the top of the curved disc to create the first "professional model" for Emeryville-based Wham-O.
The added ridges created better lift, straighter flight and improved stability by increasing "interference with the smooth airflow pattern," according to U.S. Patent No. 3,359,678, filed by Headrick on Nov. 1, 1965, for a "Flying Saucer."
The patent was officially issued in 1967, but Wham-O began selling its version in 1964, according to the company's Web site. The patent number is stamped onto Frisbees around the world and has been rubbed by the hands of millions who toss the discs across park lawns and beaches, into the grasp of fellow players or the mouths of waiting dogs.
"I felt the Frisbee had some kind of a spirit involved," Headrick told the Santa Cruz Sentinel last October. "It's not just like playing catch with a ball. It's the beautiful flight."
Headrick founded the International Frisbee Association and Disc Golf Association to oversee the sport of disc golf.
The family will honor Headrick's wish that his ashes be molded into memorial flying discs to be given to a select few family and friends and others who make donations in his memory, Ken Headrick said.
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, three sons and 11 grandchildren.
Ed Headrick
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Flexibility
Young Cambodian contortionist girl, performs on top of a pole at a travelling circus show on the riverfront in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2002. The
participants perform various simple tricks to entertain the crowd, the primary objective of the show is to try to sell herbal medicine with wildly exaggerated healing properties.
Photo by Andy Eames
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