'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
August 26, 2003
A suicide bomber in a shiny new cement truck blew up the
United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and killed 23 people,
including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N. special
representative in Iraq.
The Bush Administration was hoping that
the bombing would persuade Europeans to send more troops to
Iraq; the French were quite clear that this would require
"sharing information and authority." Germany and Russia were
also unwilling to allow their troops to serve under U.S.
command.
American soldiers were still dying in Iraq, and the Bush
Administration continued to resist calls to increase the
number of troops there.
Islamic militants burned down a girls'
school south of Kabul, and American diplomats revealed that
resident Bush, after sizing up the situation in Afghanistan
"like a businessman," has concluded that an additional
investment in that country could lead more quickly to an
American withdrawal.
An internal EPA report revealed that
the Bush Administration forced the agency to lie about the
air quality in New York City just after 9/11. The agency,
which was forced to filter all public statements through the
president's National Security Council, had no basis for its
claim that the air in New York was safe to breathe.
Attorney General John Ashcroft was on the road giving
speeches in defense of the USA Patriot Act. Congressional
Democrats warned that the speeches were in violation of
rules banning the use of Justice Department funds for
political or propaganda purposes.
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
--Roger D. Hodge
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Remembers
Brian Epstein
While waiting for something worthy of waking up here at my day job, I went
surfing the internet to findagrave.com, and realized tomorrow (8/27) is the
Yarzeit (spelling?) of Brian Epstein's death. His stone has a beautiful
Star of David, and some Hebrew writing on it -- a nice reminder how
cosmopolitan the Beatles and their entourage were.
Brian Epstein
Ray
Thanks, Ray!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Weather is still nice, but the humidity is creeping up.
One of the spiders in the yard (that the kid swore didn't bite), bit my leg. It's not serious, but it sure itches.
Then we tried to visit the aquarium, but the oil light in the car suggested a side trip to the garage would be wiser. The car is still at the garage and we walked home.
A fine eyetalian whine, anyone?
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', followed by a FRESH 'Big Brother 4', then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are David Spade and Bob Sarlatte.
Scheduled on Craiggers are John Corbett, Mimi Rogers, and Peter Cincotti.
NBC begins the evening with a RERUN 'Law & Order', followed by a RERUN 'West Wing', then another RERUN
'Law & Order'.
On a RERUN Jay are Colin Farrell, B.B. King, and Jeff Beck.
On a RERUN Conan are Patricia Heaton, Patton Oswalt, and Finch.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Denis Leary and Palo Alto.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a RERUN 'George Lopez', then another RERUN
'George Lopez', followed by a FRESH 'Drew Carey', then a FRESH 'The Family'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 7/21/03), are Magic Johnson, L.A. Laker Gary Payton, and Chaka Khan, with guest co-host Lil' Max$o.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Angel'.
Faux has a RERUN 'That 70's Show', followed by a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a
FRESH 'Parasite Hotel'.
UPN has a RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by another RERUN 'Enterprise'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Drew Barrymore), 'American Justice', then 'Take This Job...'.
AMC offers the movie 'To Hell & Back', followed by the movie 'The Eiger Sanction', then the movie 'Midnight Express'.
BBC -
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Stamford;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - St. Ives;
[8pm] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Stoke Newington;
[8:30pm] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Ealing;
[9pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 1;
[9:40pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[10:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Catherine Deneuve, Zandra Rhodes;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Anthony Head;
[12am] 'My Hero' - Episode 1;
[12:40am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[1:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;
[2am] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Stoke Newington;
[2:30am] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Ealing;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Catherine Deneuve, Zandra Rhodes; and
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Anthony Head. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', followed by the movie 'Deceiver', then 'West Wing' (again).
On a RERUN Jon Stewart is TBA.
History is all 'Modern Marvels' all night.
SciFi has 'Tracker', followed by the movie 'Stephen King's Children of The Corn', then the movie 'Howling III'.
TCM spends the next 24-hours celebrating the 4th Warner Brother, Mother Goddam herself, Miss Bette Davis.
[6am] 'The Corn Is Green' (1945);
[8am] 'The Scapegoat' (1959);
[10am] 'Another Man's Poison' (1951);
[12pm] 'That Certain Woman' (1937);
[2pm] 'Of Human Bondage' (1934);
[3:30pm] 'June Bride' (1948);
[5:15pm] 'The Catered Affair' (1956);
[7pm] 'Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano' (1984);
[8pm] 'The Old Maid' (1939);
[10pm] 'The Man Who Came To Dinner' (1941);
[12am] 'The Petrified Forest' (1936);
[1:30 am] 'Watch On The Rhine' (1943); and
[3:30am] 'Pocketful Of Miracles' (1961). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Director John Singleton (R) poses with his father Danny, after Singleton's star was unveiled during ceremonies on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood August 26, 2003. Singleton is best known for his film 'Boyz N the Hood' and current film '2 Fast 2 Furious.'
Photo by Fred Prouser
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Remembers Late Senator Fondly
Garrison Keillor
Humorist Garrison Keillor remembers the late Sen. Paul Wellstone as "a good person who also was capable of irritating the hell out of you."
"I think about him every week. He lived in this neighborhood, he and Sheila, and so we think about them making that drive down to the airport," Keillor told The Associated Press during a recent interview at his St. Paul home.
When he would run into Wellstone at the airport, Keillor said, "in a way you were kind of happy to see him and in another way, you thought, `Oh (expletive). Where am I gonna stand now?' You know, he'd spot you and he'd come up and be pokin' at you."
Keillor said Wellstone "got the joke of his being a senator — that this short, Jewish lefty from back East became a senator to a state of tall, phlegmatic Scandinavians. And so I think this was kind of a wonderful joke."
Garrison Keillor
Singing for Peace in New York
Tom Waits
Singer/songwriter Tom Waits has joined the lineup of Healing the Divide -- A Benefit Concert for Peace and Reconciliation.
Set for Sept. 21 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York, the event will also feature performances by Hamza El Din, Philip Glass, Buddhist Monks from the Gyuto Tantric Choir, Nawang Khechog, Kronos Quartet, R. Carlos Nakai, Anoushka Shankar and Foday Musa Suso.
A highlight of the event will be an address by the Dalai Lama, who will be in New York for a rare visit that will also include a public talk held in the city's Central Park. Glass and actor Richard Gere will host the show, which will benefit Healing the Divide, a non-profit organization established to improve the lives of impoverished communities throughout the Himalayan region. Tickets range from $35 to $250.
Tom Waits
Library of Congress
Cartoons
The Library of Congress offered a glimpse Tuesday of its new acquisition of 36,000 cartoons — three centuries' worth of drawings that ranged in theme from comic to political, and social to cinematic.
The drawings, which were acquired from collector and former cartoonist Art Wood, will more than double the library's holdings of cartoons. Library officials gave reporters on Tuesday a sneak peek of some of the new drawings, and the collection will be open to the public in 2005.
Wood drew cartoons for the Richmond News Leader and the Pittsburgh Press. He grew up in the Washington area and kept his collection in the cellar of his home in suburban Washington.
Wood has been collecting since the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his teens, he ran elevators and guided tourists at the library. Planning with Goldberg, who specialized in comically impractical inventions, he established a short-lived National Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon Art in Washington during the 1990s.
Cartoons
Library of Congress
Doug Black takes photos on a beach at low tide with his daughter Avery Black as the Space Needle is seen behind Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, in the Seattle neighborhood of West Seattle. Despite the region's deserved reputation for a dark, rainy and seemingly endless winters, summers tend to be sunny and dry. And this one has been a doozy. Seattle set a modern record at 12:07 p.m. Tuesday when the thermometer at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport hit 70 degrees, marking the 50th consecutive day with a hightemperature of at least 70. The previous record was established in 1958.
Photo by Elaine Thompson
Archive For Sale
Martin Luther King Jr
The archive of U.S. civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., including a draft of his famed "I Have a Dream" speech, are being exhibited in New York and offered for sale at about $30 million.
The archive from the King family's home and the King Center in Atlanta is on show at Sotheby's auction house in New York until Sept 8. The estate of the assassinated civil rights leader is selling materials from 1948 through to his death in 1968 en masse as a private sale.
Sotheby's officials said they are looking for a buyer that will exhibit the materials and keep the collection in one piece but did not specify why the family was selling it.
The collection, made up of over 7,000 items, is valued at about $30 million by Sotheby's, which hopes the sale will attract universities, libraries or museums. The King estate has final approval of the buyer.
Martin Luther King Jr
Ask Hollywood to Show Less Smoking
U.S. States
Nearly half of all U.S. states asked Hollywood on Tuesday to show less smoking in films as part of an effort to reduce cigarette use among teens.
In a letter to Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, the attorneys general of California, New York and 22 other states urged him to use his leadership to reduce the depiction of smoking on screen.
Earlier this year the World Health Organization appealed to Hollywood as well as the Indian film industry to stop glamorizing smoking.
U.S. States
Mass Guitar Performance Staged
Paul Revere
The goal was 1,000 guitars simultaneously banging out "Louie, Louie," and perhaps setting a new record for largest guitar ensemble. Hundreds of people with guitars turned out at Cheney Stadium (Tacoma, Wa) — estimates range from 600-something to 754 — and had a great time at Sunday's 1,000 Guitars festival.
They apparently did not break the purported record set by a gathering of 1,324 guitar players in Toronto who played Bachman Turner Overdrive's "Taking Care of Business."
On stage were dozens of professional musicians, including members of such bands as Heart, Jr. Cadillac and Moby Grape, not to mention the region's three "Louie Louie" bands: the Tacoma-based Wailers, and Paul Revere & the Raiders and the Kingsmen, both based in Portland.
Then — following the lead of front man Paul Revere in his trademark Revolutionary War-style red coat and hat — the guitarists launched into the legendary three-chord intro.
For the rest, Paul Revere
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Speaking at New Pa. Clinic
Olympia Dukakis
Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis will speak about her previous job as a physical therapist during the opening of a new neuroscience institute in western Pennsylvania.
Dukakis, 72, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for 1987's "Moonstruck," will be the keynote speaker Thursday at the opening of the John P. Murtha Neuroscience Institute in Richland Township, about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Besides neuroscience, the institute named for a Pennsylvania congressman will study post-polio syndrome and Charot-Marie-Tooth disease, which causes nerve degeneration.
Olympia Dukakis
Jari Dvorak of Toronto show off his first shipment of medical marijuana along with the bill from Health Canada after receiving it from his doctor on Tuesday Aug. 26, 2003. Dvorak takes the marijuana to combat the effects of HIV and is one of six people in Canada who have been approved to use the drug.
Photo by Frank Gunn
Get Syndication Points
'Raymond' Cast
The stars of the hit CBS sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" will receive millions more in syndication moneys thanks to actor Ray Romano, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Raymond" creator Phil Rosenthal, Romano and others agreed to give up 2 percent of their upcoming syndication profits so Patricia Heaton, Peter Boyle, Doris Roberts and Brad Garrett could split the money among themselves.
Each is expected to get as much as $7 million dollars from the syndication deal.
'Raymond' Cast
Baby News
Melissa Stark
Melissa Stark, a national correspondent for NBC's "Today" show, gave birth to Michael Lilley Jr. on Friday night, the network reported Tuesday. The boy weighed 7.05 pounds and was 19 inches long.
This is the first child for Stark and her husband, Mike Lilley, who've been married two and a half years.
Stark, 29, will help cover the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Previously, she was a sideline reporter for ABC's "Monday Night Football." Before that, she reported for ESPN.
Melissa Stark
Program in Kentucky Schools
Bluegrass Music Museum
Elementary students who live near the home of the late Bill Monroe — also known as the Father of Bluegrass — will soon know how to strum a guitar or pick a banjo the way he did.
Owensboro's International Bluegrass Music Museum will launch a program next month that will incorporate the study of bluegrass in all 27 of the county's elementary schools, both public and parochial.
To do that, the museum is donating four musical instruments — a guitar, a fiddle, a mandolin and a banjo — to each of the schools and hopes to eventually augment those with others donated or purchased as funds are available.
Bluegrass Music Museum
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Turns 25 With Celebration
'Animal House'
In honor of the 25th anniversary of "Animal House," Universal Studios Home Video on Tuesday is releasing a new DVD package set — subtitled "Double Secret Probation Edition," a reference to Dean Wormer's covert fraternity house punishment. The disc also includes a mockumentary about the characters as adults.
The studio hosted a reunion on Hollywood Boulevard for the cast and crew last week to recreate the comedy's parade climax, complete with a cake float, a live elephant, cheerleaders and a performance of "Shout" by Otis Day and the Knights.
As the castmates reminisced about the antics a quarter-century ago that led to one of Hollywood's most enduring comedies, most agreed that "Animal House" became popular because people could see parts of themselves in its array of lovers, losers, jocks, preppies and wannabes.
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A pink pig-nose Mercedes CDI diesel engine-propelled limousine is parked by activists of the environment protection organization 'Greenpeace' opposite the DymlerChrysler office in Berlin on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003 to protest against diesel engine emissions. Greenpece protests the policy of German carmakers Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler for refusing to equip their diesel cars with proper emission filter systems.
Photo by Roberto Pfeil
Confronts Police
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston angrily confronted officers as her husband, Bobby Brown, was arrested outside a seafood restaurant, police said.
"She was outwardly frustrated. She was upset. She was yelling and screaming and pointing fingers at one of our officers," Sgt. Chris Lagerbloom said of Houston. "We deal with emotions like that from family members all the time. To say that she was calm about it would be a misstatement."
But he said officers didn't consider charging the 40-year-old singer with disorderly conduct.
Meanwhile, Brown "was as calm and cordial and professional as you could be," Lagerbloom said.
Whitney Houston
Cruises Into Centennial
Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson, the iconic motorcycle maker whose bikes call to mind leather-clad easy riders cruising down the open road, has reached its centennial, surviving the Depression and near-bankruptcy to become an American success story.
Along the way, the company has collected thousands of fans who love the freedom-of-the-road lifestyle and the bike's classic chrome-and-metal look, dependability and a distinctive engine rumble known to Harley riders as "potato, potato, potato."
Harley-Davidson is also celebrating a 46 percent share of the North American heavyweight motorcycle market, an impressive showing for the company that William Harley and Arthur Davidson started in a wooden shed.
At least 250,000 visitors are expected to make the pilgrimage to Milwaukee in the next week for Harley-Davidson's 100th anniversary blowout. The bash will feature motorcycle stunts, music, bike exhibits, merchandise sales and plenty of partying — along with the constant rumble from all the bikes.
For the rest, Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson
Opens Neverland Ranch
Michael Jackson
Like a real-life Willy Wonka, pop star Michael Jackson has announced plans to temporarily open his carnival-style Neverland Ranch estate to 500 guests.
The invitation-only event, set for Sept. 13, is a one-time-only gathering, complete with dinner, magicians, games and a tractor-trailer full of stuffed animals, according to Jackson publicist Stuart Backerman.
Tickets for two people cost $5,000, with $1,000 from each sale being divided among three charities, he added. Jackson will keep the rest — Backerman said it would pay for the costs of the party.
Guests would also receive a "goodie bag" worth about $1,000 and an original painting by Brazilian artist Romero Britto.
Backerman said 250 tickets will go on sale, potentially worth $1.25 million. The maximum $250,000 charitable donation will be split between the Make-A-Wish Foundation for sick children; Oneness, dedicated to erasing racism through art and music; and E Ai Como E Que Fica, a Rio de Janeiro group that provides food, clothing and medical care to impoverished children.
Michael Jackson
Kong, a five-year-old blind sun bear, eats a coconut at a bear rescue center at a zoo south of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, July 14, 2003. Also known as the honey bear for its reputed love of sweet food, the sun bear is the smallest of all the bear family as well as being the least understood and one of the most endangered. Photo taken July 14.
Photo by Chor Sokunthea
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
The Ark Group reunites and Flazer fulfills his destiny.
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