Bartcop Entertainment - Wednesday, 3 October, 2001

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Wednesday

3 October, 2001

big hammer - bigger hammer

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New TV Season In 2nd Week


Did anyone watch anything?

Any opinions?
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The New Show Premiering tonight is


'According To Jim' on ABC.



The Season Premiere of 'The West Wing' on NBC.



Fresh episodes of 'The Amazing Race' and 'Wolf Lake' on CBS;

and

'Lost' and 'Law & Order' on NBC;

and

'My Wife & Kids', 'The Drew Carey Show', and 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' on ABC;

and

'Enterprise' on UPN.



Still looking for opinions on any (or all)!


(Hint, Hint!)


E-Mail Marty


And, Thanks! to all who have responded.

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Tonight

'The West Wing'

West Wing

NBC drama ``The West Wing'' opens its new season on Wednesday with a hurriedly produced special episode on issues raised by the Sept. 11 attacks on America, becoming the first of several shows to embrace terrorism themes the networks initially avoided.

``The West Wing,'' starring Martin Sheen as fictional President Josiah Bartlet, is the first show to reverse the initial impulse of prime-time dramas to shy away from anything having to do with the events of Sept. 11.
Since NBC executives last week gave the go-ahead for the special ``West Wing'' segment, series creator Aaron Sorkin and the Emmy-winning show's cast and crew have raced to put the episode together under a painfully tight production schedule.

The effort also forced NBC to postpone the series' official season opener by two weeks, and to air a rerun last week.

Seeking to avoid the appearance of exploiting a tragedy, NBC and the show's producers have been deliberately vague about the episode, to be titled ``Isaac and Ishmael.''

NBC has said cast members would introduce the episode out of character at the outset of the show, which has been written as a stand-alone episode and not part of the show's serial story line that ended last season with Bartlet deciding whether to seek a second term after disclosing he suffers from multiple sclerosis.

Churning out a special episode under short deadlines posed considerable production hurdles for the show, and forced cast members to memorize a lot of dialogue very quickly. With the final scene shot Monday, producers had only two days, as opposed to the usual 21, between completion of principal photography and the broadcast, the Los Angeles Times reported.

West Wing

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Weekly Review

from Harper's Magazine


Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor told a New York audience that "we're likely to experience more restrictions on our personal freedom than has ever been the case in our country." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer denounced television personality Bill Maher for suggesting that firing cruise missiles at targets 2,000 miles away was perhaps more cowardly that flying a plane into a tall building: "There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is." "Watch what they say," which was captured on tape, was omitted from the official White House transcript. The White House retreated from its claim that a threat to Air Force One was received on September 11 after no record was found of such a call. A professor at the University of New Mexico was in big trouble for joking that "anyone who can blow up the Pentagon gets my vote"; university officials were calling for his resignation. Two small-town journalists were fired for criticizing the President. A consortium of newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal decided not to announce the results of its recount and analysis of 200,000 disputed Florida ballots. It was revealed that in the days just after September 11 former president George Bush advised his son to tone down the bellicose rhetoric. Britain was planning to institute a national ID card, a scheme that has the support of 85 percent of the population. Lawmakers were concerned that the Bush Administration was seeking language in its antiterrorism bills that would enable the laws to be applied against common criminals.....
( continued at Weekly Review )

--Roger D. Hodge

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Hell Is For Gumshoes

by Michael Dare

Michael Dare

HELL IS FOR GUMSHOES


Helen

Helen A. Handbasket



Chapter One

I leaned back in my squeaky chair, put my feet up on the desk, and looked out the window from my third story office at the intersection of Rosie and Oprah on the ninth level of hell. It wasn't exactly where I wanted to be, but it would do. Better than some places I've been, worse than others. The view was nice but the population was appalling. The ninth level of hell was full of people who were getting exactly what they deserved.

What concerned me wasn't where I was but whom I was dealing with. My prey. The guy I'd been hired to find. The elusive bastard with a trail colder than Sharon Stone's aneurysm. What did he look like? Would I know him when I saw him? Who cared as long as I was getting paid. Satan's checks never bounced.

"Someone here to see you," said Maurice Chevalier over the intercom. At least they gave me a secretary and Maurice was pretty charming.

I put out my cigarette and pressed a button. "Do they have an appointment?"

"I don't sink so, but zey are very persuasive" crooned Maurice.

"Yeah? What do they look like?"

He started humming a song and it wasn't "Thank Heaven for Little Girls." It was something by Alice Cooper. I knew I was in trouble.

I checked my revolver for the third time that morning, making sure it was loaded with one in the barrel.

"Show them in," I told Maurice.

I'd never had an adversary who showed such callous disregard for the rules of play. How do you play a game? You find an opponent and you mutually agree to a set of rules before you start. The whole point of a game is to see who can win according to the rules. Without rules, there's no game. How do you figure out who the winner is?

Total strangers from around the world, and deep down under, can gather to play chess or checkers or dominoes or hundreds of other games because these games have immutable rules. Chess is chess, even if the opponents don't speak the same language. There's nothing to chance. There are no dice thrown. If you win, it's because you played better, period. There aren't variations of chess. If your opponent in chess moves his rook diagonally, saying "That's how we play where I'm from," you are being bullshitted, my friend, and you don't have to take it. The game is over. You stand up from the table and look for a new game with someone who knows how to play.

That's what I was doing on the ninth level. The ninth level is the game level, where everybody plays games all the time - only anybody can make up any rule they want on the spot. Lots of weaponry. The rule of chess in the ninth level of hell is that the winner is the first player who declares checkmate and doesn't get stabbed. The rule of baseball in the ninth level of hell is that the winning team is the one with the most home runs at the end of the ninth inning who doesn't get mowed down in machine gun fire.

If you were researching games, this was the place to be, in a brownstone without an elevator, a crappy two-room office with the bathroom down the hall, and no air conditioning. At least the windows opened, which brought in a sulfurous breeze that sickened as it cooled you off.

Maurice opened the door to my office and let in a gruesome, drooling sight, like a Jack Davis caricature of an ogre, dressed in leather and creosote, a cross between a warthog and a sumo wrestler. "What the hell are you looking at?" it snorted. "Your tusks," I said. "could use a flossing."

"Your cunt could use a fucking," he said, "but I'm not rude enough to mention it."

Crude and sarcastic. I like that in an ogre.

He plopped himself down on my sofa, raising a cloud of God knows what. "You wanted to see me?" he snorted.

"Depends on who you are," I said.

He pulled the sofa up to the desk, reached into his fringed vest, and withdrew a deck of cards, which he shuffled with a hellish flourish. He then dealt us each five. I picked up my hand and looked at it.

Standard deck, probably fifty-two but who knows. All I knew was that if we were playing poker, I had a royal flush made out of hearts.

"I'll take two," he said, throwing two of his cards down on the table and dealing himself two more from the deck.

He looked at me like he expected me to do something. "I'll stay with these," I said.

He squinted his inscrutable piggy ogre eyes, smiled, and put his cards on the table. "I bet..." he said, then waited, looked around the office as if sizing up the place trying to figure if there was anything here worth winning. "I bet you think I don't know who you work for."

Some bet. Here I was sitting on the hand of a lifetime but he wasn't going for his wallet. Bad sign.

"I work for whoever hires me," I said, putting down the cards, figuring the game was over. "I'm considering the likes of you so obviously I'm not so picky."

"You got a mouth on you for a white girl," he grunted. "You better watch what you say to me. You don't know who you're dealing with."

"Okay, who are you?"

He handed me his card. There was no mistaking it. Covered in meticulous renderings of demons. This guy was Breughal.

Pretty famous case. Eternity's most famous whistle-blower. Doomed to spend a decade as every character he ever drew, just for giving away company secrets. I actually admired the guy and wondered what he really looked like.

"I think we have something in common," he said.

He was right. With my earthly column, "Who's Going to Hell This Week?" I was certainly guilty of betraying our lord and master as much as he did, which got me wondering. Why was he doomed to spend eternity in such an uncomfortable form while I was this luscious babe?

"I guess we do have something in common," I said, warming up to the putrescent monstrosity soiling my sofa.

"I've got a job for you," he said. "Are you interested?"

"You want to know if I'm interested before telling me the job?"

"That would spoil the surprise."

Playing games. Ninth level bullshit. Well, I was here; I had to put up with it. That's why they pay me the bucks.

"You gonna tell me what you're willing to pay," I said.

"Nothing," he said, "think of it as a trade."

"What do you have that I want?"

"I know where to find the Gamemaster."

That got my attention. I'd spent countless hours with Satan and his filleted mignons, but I'd never met the Gamemaster. If reality was a game of Monopoly, then the Gamemaster was the ultimate bank. He was the cosmic arbitrator, the repository of all rules. If I could get to him it could only help me in my quest. If the man I was hired to find played by any rulebook, the Gamemaster would have it. I needed to meet him, whatever the cost.

"It's a deal," I said.

Did I mention I get a bonus?


To Be Continued...


Dare2b

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Old TV

Bonanza

Bonanza

If you are of a certain age, the theme from the TV show "Bonanza" is, no doubt, embedded in your brain. But did you know the song has words?

On Sunday, Pax-TV will air the uncut first episode of the famous Western series that had its debut on Sept. 12, 1959, with the happy Cartwright family singing the words to the theme. This — after 42 years — is a first.

Bonanza

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Update

Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone

Tests found that Sharon Stone suffered bleeding onto the surface of the brain, but she'll have to undergo another angiogram to determine whether she had an aneurysm.

Doctors found the 43-year-old actress had a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding into the space between the brain and the middle membrane covering the brain, her publicist Cindi Berger said Tuesday. She has been hospitalized for the past several days after suffering from a severe headache.

``I will be getting another angiogram on Friday,'' Stone said in a statement. ``That should be the final determination at which point every part of my anatomy will have been photographed in detail. At last the mysteries will be resolved.''

The angiogram will determine whether Stone had an aneurysm, which is a weak spot on a blood vessel that bursts.

``If they didn't find an aneurysm, this bleeding could have come from some other source,'' said Dr. Ashok Anant, chief of neurosurgery at Maimonedes Medical Center in New York. ``If they had found an aneurysm, she probably already would've had surgery.''

``I've been treated with medication,'' Stone told the Chronicle. ``I've been very, very lucky.''

Sharon Stone

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New! Updated!

BartCop Astrology


Check it out at BC Astrology.

"Guitar Greats" is still on hiatus, but, this week, it's a look at 'The Birth of Aviation', and a relevant USA horoscope courtesy of Marc Penfield.

Very interesting reading!

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Baby News

Jodie Foster

From now on, when Jodie Foster refers to her two golden guys, we can no longer assume she means her pair of Oscars.

That's because the 38-year-old actress-director-producer gave birth Saturday to son number two, publicist Pat Kingsley confirmed today.

Here are the vital statistics. The baby's name is Kit Foster. Like big brother Charles, Kit was born in Los Angeles. He weighed in at 6 pounds, 3 ounces.

While the delivery came about a month earlier than Foster had planned, "there is no reason to raise any red flags--everything was normal," Kingsley says. "Both [Foster and child] are at home and fine."

As with Charles, who turned three in July, mom is mum on the paternity of the newborn. When asked in April by New York Post gossip columnist Liz Smith whether "her donor" was the same man as Charles' father, the fiercely private Foster replied, "I'm not going to answer that."

She says she plans to raise her kids as single mother. "Just like I was raised myself," she told Smith.

Jodie Foster

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Friar's Roast

Hugh Hefner

Hef

Comics Drew Carey, Rob Schneider and Adam Corolla banded together at the Friars Club annual roast to poke fun at Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Hef's seven siliconed girlfriends sat front and center, and Carey had the gall to question the intelligence of Hef's beauteous blonds. "They don't even know we're making fun of H-E-F and how O-L-D he is," he mocked. Also in the crowd were Kylie Bax, Howard Stern, Vincent Pastore and Patty Hearst. ...

Hef Roast

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Trailer For Thanksgiving

Star Wars: Episode II

In an interview conducted on Skywalker Ranch with George, Empire's Ian Freer asked the man himself why there wasn't going to be an Episode II trailer on The Phantom Menace DVD. This was his answer; 'I think the primary reason is we haven't gotten a trailer for Episode II yet. And we don't have enough shots to even make a trailer for Episode II yet. Traditionally we always release a trailer at Thanksgiving. There are always two trailers. There's always one at Thanksgiving and there's always one in March. And we thought about it, but I didn't want to delay the DVD.'

Lucas also reveals something rather interesting about how the tousle-haired moppet we see in Anakin becomes Darth Vader. Talking about how future generations will view the Star Wars series, Lucas says that if you start with Star Wars, then '[Vader]'s just the villain, and that's it. But you don't realise that he's a human being, that he's got problems [you don't realise] that he could have been saved, that he was tricked and can be resurrected.'

Tricked, huh? Well that's something to get the fans jawing about. You can read the full interview with George Lucas in the November issue of Empire which is out now.

Empireonline.co.uk

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New!

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

Don't worry about the HTML, just send text, or rich text, or a Word document, photos, video, whatever you have, and Michele will take care of the rest. Don't hesitate to write with any questions you may have and bring on the recipes!

To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more (like 'Cranberry Autumn Tea'),
In The Kitchen With BartCop

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Odd Music News

Erick Sermon

Rapper Erick Sermon was critically injured when he plunged from a third-story window, which Paterson police said Tuesday they are investigating as a suicide attempt.

The police account contradicts the story from the artist's record label that Sermon, 32, was injured in a car crash on a rain-slicked road.

Police said they were called Sept. 25 on a report of an attempted suicide. They were unable to interview Sermon, who is being treated for head and facial injuries at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center.

But a woman told police the rapper had been in her apartment. She left briefly and returned to find him gone and a window open. The woman, whom police did not identify, said she looked out the window and saw Sermon lying on his back in the parking lot, bleeding from the head.

Sermon, who lives in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., was listed in fair condition Tuesday.

Biff Warren, a publicist for his label, J Records, initially told The Associated Press that Sermon was heading home after finishing a video shoot in upstate New York when he fell asleep at the wheel and ran into a wall.

Another record label publicist, Yusef Gomez, told The Record of Hackensack for Tuesday's editions that he does not know where the original information came from.

``As far as we knew and what was sent to us, he was in a car accident,'' he said.

Erick Sermon

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'Radio' News

Clear Channel Whines

Top U.S. radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications Inc. said Tuesday that it lost $45 million to $50 million in radio ad revenues in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

In August, Clear Channel said that it expected third-quarter cash flow of 73 cents a share, below the Wall Street consensus at the time of 80 cents a share.

The latest was global media powerhouse News Corp. (NCP.AX), which said on Tuesday morning that it had lost tens of millions of dollars in ad revenues because of the attacks.
(aw, gee, rupert....so sad you must act like an 'American', and do 'what's right' - controlling the media can be such a bitch.)

Media companies had already been suffering from a sharp slowdown in ad spending because of the slowing economy, and industry experts say the attacks have only exacerbated the problem.

Mays said that Clear Channel's $1 billion buyback program had expired on Oct. 1 and that the company will likely renew the program. Many companies have instigated buybacks in the wake of the disaster in a bid to prop up their share prices.

clear channel whines

For a refresher on Clear Channel, see bcEnt 9/19/01

(Back when there was a real FCC, where it's paramount duty was to 'provide broadcasting in the "public interest, convenience and necessity"', an entity like Clear Channel or even rupert's world would have been against the ownership laws. But, Congress gave 'broadcasters' the airwaves back in '96, and, of course, it wasn't news.)

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BartCop TV!

BC TV

Visit the site at BC TV

The 'Vidiot' is now updating daily!

For an amazing variety of information on an astounding array of tv programs check out BC TV!

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Emmy Awards

This Sunday Night

Emmy

A workman dismantles the bleachers outside the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles September 27, 2001.
The Shrine is the site of the 53rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards scheduled for telecast on October 7.
Event organizers have made several changes to the awards show including eliminating the bleachers where fans would have been seated, scaling back the red carpet arrivals area and increasing security at the event.

Emmys

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Not A Happy Camper

Richard T. Jones

Richard T. Jones, who plays court services officer Bruce Van Exel on the CBS legal drama Judging Amy, has filed suit against 20th Century Fox Television to get out of his contract and quit the show because he's unhappy with the way his character has been developing over the past two seasons.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the actor accused producers of reneging on an oral agreement to release him from his contract, since his role on Judging Amy was going nowhere by the second season.

But when Jones informed Fox of his decision to ditch the show, executives refused to let him out of his contract.

"He made a request that he be written off the series and they said 'no,'" says Jones' attorney, Martin Singer. "He's been assured that if he was unhappy with his character's development, he could request to do so...But [producers] haven't lived up to their promises."

Instead of letting him go, Singer claims producers forced Jones into indentured servitude, working 17-hour days and requiring him to participate in table readings during his lunch break--all the while relegating his character to the background.

While CBS was not named in the lawsuit, a rep for Fox declined to comment, citing pending litigation.

Richard T. Jones

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7-1-1

Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown connected with deaf actress Marlee Matlin, making the first 7-1-1 call in California on a new system for the hearing impaired.

Brown's words were relayed on Monday through an operator, who typed them to a special screen connected to Matlin's phone in Los Angeles. She typed her message on a connected keyboard, then the operator spoke the words to Brown.

The 7-1-1 system, which began operating Monday, is available nationwide for deaf callers or others with disabilities that prevent them from talking. The Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program is free, but callers must pay any regular connecting fees.

Prior to the 7-1-1 system, calls to and from deaf callers had to originate with a 10-digit number that varied from state to state.

Matlin, who plays Joey Lucas on NBC's ``The West Wing,'' won an Academy Award for her role in the 1986 film ``Children of a Lesser God.''

Marlee & 7-1-1

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Music News

Chubby Checker

Chubby Checker says the music industry has left him twisting in the wind.

The king of ``The Twist'' recently took out a full-page ad in Billboard magazine, arguing that he's one of rock 'n' roll's most important figures - and one of its most underappreciated.

In an open letter to the entertainment industry, Checker demanded a statue of himself in the courtyard of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. If he doesn't get one, he said he'll refuse induction into the hall, although he hasn't been voted in.

``I want my flowers while I'm alive. I can't smell them when I'm dead,'' he wrote. ``I will not have the music business ignore my position in the industry.''

Terry Stewart, president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - which will announce its newest inductees in December - said it would be unfair to give Checker his own statue.

``The idea that we could elevate one individual with a statue out front would suggest I would have to do likewise for all the rest of the people in the pantheon,'' Stewart said. ``It's just not a reasonable request.''

Chubby Checker

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Disney News

flit

CA Adventure Puckless

Wolfgang Puck's Avalon Cove restaurant at Disney's California Adventure closed Monday, and another high-profile eatery run by the Robert Mondavi winery has limited its financial role in the theme park.

California Adventure has failed to meet attendance goals since it opened in February as an alternative to neighboring Disneyland with a mix of thrill rides, kids attractions and adult fare like high-end restaurants serving alcohol.

Puck's restaurant in the heart of the "Paradise Pier" seaside district shut its doors Monday.

Avalon Cove did not meet the financial expectations of Los Angeles-based Wolfgang Puck Food Co., which declined comment. Disney hopes to reopen the restaurant in time for the holidays.

Spokesman Nancy Light said Mondavi will reduce its role from operator to sponsor of the Golden Vine Winery, a wine-tasting retail complex and restaurant modeled after the private dining room at the Mondavi winery in California's Napa Valley. The principal financial issue to be resolved is Mondavi's lease on the site, she said.

Disney's park business was already coping with the effects of a slow economy when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks slammed the tourism industry and sent Disney shares reeling. The stock lost .60, or 3.2%, on Monday to close at 18.02.

Buh-Bye Wolfgang

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First Person Diary

Ray Berry

Ray has temporarily (I hope), suspended 'Bush-Toons'. In its place, he has put his daily diary of life in Manhattan since Tuesday.

Ray has great observational abilities, and a wonderful way with words.

To visit & read, www.bush-toons.com

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In Memory

George Gately


George Gately, the creator of the "Heathcliff" newspaper comic about the antics of a rotund cat, has died. He was 72.

Gately died Sunday of a heart attack at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, his brother John Gallagher said. Gately's real name was George Gately Gallagher.

Gately created his "Heathcliff" cartoon in 1973, predating "Garfield" by five years. It featured the stylish cat, who often wore a black leather jacket and sunglasses. The comic was later turned into an animated TV show.

He had hoped to become a musician, his brother said, but "Heathcliff" became so popular that he was too busy drawing to pursue music full-time.

He also created the "Hapless Harry" comic in the 1960s.

John Gallagher said his brother had stopped drawing the cartoon character about three years ago. His nephew, Peter Gallagher, had taken over the job.

George Gately

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American Air

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