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Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
October 29, 2002
Former senators Warren Rudman and Gary Hart warned in a new
report that the federal government has done virtually
nothing to secure the nation against terrorist attack. Power
plants, refineries, and transportation infrastructure are
still unprotected; local police, firefighters, and other
emergency personnel are almost as unprepared for attacks now
as they were in September 2001; almost none of the cargo
containers entering the country are inspected; and the
federal government has authorized only $92 million of the $2
billion needed to secure the nation's ports.
The FBI warned
that terrorists might be planning an attack somewhere,
possibly involving trains.
A distributed denial-of-service
attack on the 13 root servers of the domain name system
failed to bring down the Internet.
Newly declassified
documents revealed that in 1976, on the day before Chilean
agents assassinated Orlando Letelier with a car bomb in
Washington, D.C., a senior State Department official told
American ambassadors not to speak to their local Latin
American dictators about the need to stop using death squads
to deal with dissidents.
Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, one of the last
liberals in Congress, died in a plane crash on his way to
the funeral of a steelworker. Lobbyists were giddy at the
prospect of a Republican Senate; one anonymous source
remarked that "it's the domestic equivalent of planning for
postwar Iraq."
The Pentagon announced that it will set up a
new intelligence unit because senior officials are not happy
with the reports they are getting on Iraq, especially the
judgment that Iraq has no connection with Al Qaeda and that
it has no intention of attacking the United States.
"There
is a complete breakdown in the relationship between the
Defense Department and the intelligence community," said an
unnamed official. "Wolfowitz and company disbelieve any
analysis that doesn't support their preconceived
conclusions. The CIA is enemy territory as far as they're
concerned."
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
-- Roger D. Hodge
Reader Contribution
Thanks, Rick!
Reader Alert
'COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY'
from tim h
In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to
transmit the investigative report, the nation's top PBS stations will independently
broadcast COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY.
Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute
documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine
Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - mostly black - five months before
the 2000 election. While the public broadcast network chiefs refused to schedule
this important report, dozens of local stations are insisting on showing the expose
before the mid-term elections.
TONIGHT!!! ~~~>10/30 (9 pm) KBDI --- Denver, CO <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
10/31 (10 pm) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/1 (12 am) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/3 (1 pm) WLRN --- Miami, FL
11/3 (2 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/3 (5 pm) WNED --- Buffalo, NY
11/3 (10 pm) WUFM --- Missoula, MT
11/3 (10 pm) WUSM --- Butte - Bozeman, MT
11/4 (Midnight) WNET --- New York, NY
11/5 (10 pm) KCET --- Los Angeles, CA
11/6 (8 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/24 (1 am) KPBS --- San Diego, CA
For more information - www.globalvision.org/program/fla/fla.html
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The veil of phlegm is lifting, but, Kleenex is still considered a necessity.
The kid returned to school today.
Check out Michael Dare's 'Halloween/Election Special'!
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', and follows with a fresh 'Amazing Race 3' and a fresh 'Presidio Med'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave is Warren Zevon
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Frankie Muniz, Ashley Scott, and comic Graham Elwood.
NBC has a fresh 'Ed', then a fresh 'West Wing' and caps it with a fresh 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Bill Maher, Marilyn Manson, and Shaggy.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Steven Schirripa, Julianna Margulies, and Sleater-Kinney.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Harvey Keitel and Tracy Chapman.
ABC has a fresh 'My Wife & Kids', then a fresh 'George Lopez', followed by a fresh 'The Bachelor', and wraps it with a fresh 'MDs'.
The WB has a fresh 'Dawson's Creek' followed by a fresh 'Birds Of Prey'.
Faux offers a fresh 'Bernie Mac', a fresh 'Cedric The Entertainer', and a fresh 'Fastlane'.
UPN weighs in with a fresh 'Enterprise' and a fresh 'Twilight Zone'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Minneapolis, Minnesota - 10/29/02
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) and his wife Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, greet former Vice President Walter Mondale (C) before the start of the memorial service for Senator Paul Wellstone
at Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, October 29, 2002. Wellstone and seven others were killed in a small plane crash on October 25.
Photo by Bill Alkofer
Returning 26 November
'The Osbournes'
British rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his raucous, foul-mouthed clan will return to the tube on Nov. 26, kicking off a second season of MTV's highest-rated show, the Viacom Inc.-owned
cable music network said on Tuesday.
The family decided to pick up where they left off last spring with 10 new episodes chronicling their lives in Beverly Hills as they simultaneously adjust to heightened fame and
Sharon Osbourne's illness.
This season, the show will feature a new member of the clan, 18-year-old Robert Marcato, a family friend whose mother recently died of cancer and has moved in with the Osbournes.
They are in the process of legally adopting him.
Melinda the nanny also will return, along with an ever-expanding collection of dogs and cats and various other characters who drift in and out of the Osbourne household.
The show also will incorporate scenes from Ozzy's touring schedule over the summer, a trip to Washington last May to dine with the president, and Kelly's bid to launch a recording career as a singer.
'The Osbournes'
Receives Mark Twain Prize
Bob Newhart
An ordinary-looking everyman who looked at the lunacy around him with deadpan humor and unflappable calm — is this year's winner of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Comedians Tim Conway, Richard Belzer, Steven Wright and The Smothers Brothers were among those honoring Newhart, 73, during a Kennedy Center gala Tuesday night that is to air Nov. 13 on PBS.
Newhart is perhaps best known in his role as Bob Hartley, a Chicago psychiatrist whose neighbors and colleagues were as neurotic as his patients, in "The Bob Newhart Show." The comedy,
costarring Suzanne Pleshette as Bob's wife, Emily, aired on CBS from 1972-78 and has been in perpetual syndication since.
Newhart began his career in comedy after a stint in the Army and jobs as an accountant and an advertising copywriter.
Newhart lives in Bel Air, Calif., with his wife, Virginia. They have four children.
The Mark Twain Prize has been awarded annually since 1998. Other recipients include Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner and Whoopi Goldberg.
Bob Newhart
At The Kennedy Center
The Smothers Brothers
The Smothers Brothers, Tom, left, and Dick, arrive at the Kennedy Center, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002, in Washington for the Mark Twain Prize for Humor Award ceremony. The award was being given to Bob Newhart,
the 73-year-old entertainer who is best known for his sitcom 'The Bob Newhart Show.'
Photo by Lawrence Jackson
A Tribute
Richard Harris
Manhattan private eye Joe Mullen will never forget his run-ins with hell-raising "Harry Potter" actor Richard Harris, who died Friday at 72 from Hodgkin's Disease. Mullen recalls sending his two sons, Tom and Mike,
to spy on Harris on behalf of the star's suspicious then-wife, actress/model Ann Turkel. The Mullen brothers found Harris at a hotel bar in Toronto. But he outsmarted them by getting them so drunk, they were too hung
over to follow him the next day. Another time, Mullen tried to serve Harris legal papers in a hospital bed. (Hard-living Harris was no stranger to hospitals. He nearly died from a cocaine overdose in 1978, was said to
have been in intensive care five times, and been given his last rites twice.) Because Harris had tubes coming out of his arm, Mullen left the room and told Turkel he was afraid Harris' condition would worsen if he was
served. "I waited in the stairway, and Ann went in," Mullen recalls. "Within five minutes, the air was ringing with alarms. The nurse ran in and yelled, 'My God! What the hell are you doing?' " Ann was performing oral sex on him.
Richard Harris
Gets OBE from Queen
Liam Neeson
Hollywood actor Liam Neeson went to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday to receive an OBE (Order of the British Empire) award from Queen Elizabeth for his stage and film career.
Neeson, 50, told reporters after the ceremony: "I've not been so nervous since I met Muhammad Ali. I really was weak-kneed."
Neeson, who stars in the recently released "K-19: The Widowmaker," lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
Liam Neeson
National Civil Rights Hall of Fame
Bill Cosby
This time, Bill Cosby wasn't just after laughs.
The 65-year-old comedian joined the Rev. Jesse Jackson and former Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher onstage Sunday to raise money for the National Civil Rights Hall of Fame.
Hatcher has been trying to raise money to build the hall in Gary for two decades.
"You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery," Cosby told several hundred
people at a private reception before his show Sunday at the Star Plaza Theatre.
"Take that money and build something you can see ... something for the children," said Cosby, who donated the money from the show to the museum.
Gary's City Council and Mayor Scott King have been locked in a dispute over funding for the hall, which both sides support.
The council voted in June to approve $5 million in casino revenues for the museum, but King argued the council had no authority to initiate spending measures, and filed a lawsuit.
Bill Cosby
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Score With NBA Pact
Rolling Stones
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, a keen basketball player in his youth, has become the newest recruit to the NBA.
The veteran English rock band has joined forces with the NBA for a promotional campaign that will air throughout the league's season, which begins on Tuesday, both parties said on Monday
A 30-second "Love It Live" TV spot mixing footage from the Stones' current North American tour with game action highlights, will debut on Tuesday when the Philadelphia 76ers play
the Orlando Magic and the San Antonio Spurs take on defending champions the Los Angeles Lakers.
The ad will depict the group performing its new single "Don't Stop," which is taken from its compilation album "Forty Licks." NBA stars featured in the ad include Jason Kidd,
Shaquille O'Neal, and Kevin Garnett, a statement said.
Rolling Stones
India
Cave Paintings
A 40,000-year-old cave painting seen on a white silica sandstone rock shelter depicting existence of human civilization is seen in Banda district 800 kilometers,(500 miles) southeast of
New Delhi, India, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2002. The painting shows hunting by cave men in Paleolithic age. These caves were discovered recently.
Photo by Shekhar Srivastava
Full-Season Orders to Four Shows
CBS
CBS, showing confidence in its new fall line-up, gave full-season orders to three dramas and a comedy on Monday, including the highest-rated new show of the fall season.
CBS said it had ordered an additional nine episodes, making a full 22-show season, for dramas "CSI: Miami," "Without A Trace" and "Hack" and the comedy "Still Standing."
"CSI: Miami" in particular has been a standout for the network, emerging as the most bona-fide hit among the new shows on the air this season. For the season through Oct. 20
it is the No. 5 show on television, according to Nielsen Media Research.
"Still Standing" and "Without A Trace" also both rank in Nielsen's top 20 for the season. "Hack" has not been as strong as the others but the network said it is still up 56
percent in total viewers from the same time period last season.
CBS
Baby News
Parker & Broderick
Actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are the new parents of a baby boy, the actress' publicist said on Tuesday.
The boy, born on Monday at a New York hospital, weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces, and is 19 1/2 inches tall. Mother and child are doing well, said publicist Ina Treciokas.
Parker & Broderick
National Organization for Women
'Feminist Primetime Report'
The National Organization for Women has decried the country's six major television networks as catering to an "adolescent boy's fantasy world" in its third annual report on how women are portrayed on prime-time TV.
According to the "Feminist Primetime Report," the six networks employed 134 more men than women in recurring prime-time roles and the majority of female characters fell into the beauty standard
of "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston: "young, thin and white." The study noted that only four Asian-American actresses had substantial roles on prime-time television.
"Network programming sends a distorted, often offensive image of women, girls and people of color brought to you through the point of view of white men and boys," said NOW Foundation president
Kim Gandy. "Television remains very much a man's world, with women serving primarily as eye candy."
'Feminist Primetime Report'
BartCop TV!
And The Beat Goes On
Sonny Bono Concourse
The Sonny Bono Concourse has been added to the Palm Springs International Airport.
Bono, of the '60s singing duo Sonny & Cher, was the area's congressman until his death in a 1998 skiing accident.
Earlier this year, officials designated a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 10 as the Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway. The section runs from just west of the Highway 111
cutoff near Palm Springs to Dillon Road in the Coachella area.
Downtown, there's a life-size statue of Bono, who once served as mayor of Palm Springs. A wildlife refuge at the Salton Sea also is named after him.
Sonny Bono Concourse
Wayang Shadow Puppets
Timbul Hadiprayitno
Timbul Hadiprayitno shows some of his leather puppets from among a collection of more than 600 stored at his home not far from Yogyakarta, the cultural heart of Indonesia's Java island, September 25, 2002. The master of Indonesia's famous
wayang shadow puppets is fighting a losing battle to interest the country's youth in an ancient art form that has long been used as a metaphor to describe the opaque world of Indonesian politics.
Photo by Dwi Oblo
Called A Mama's Boy
Keith Richards
It may be hard to believe, but hard-rocking Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was a mama's boy. And drummer Charlie Watts banjo playing lead him to the drums.
Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman reveals these things in his upcoming book, "Rolling With the Stones."
Wyman, who left the supergroup in 1997 to become a solo artist, said Richards' mother said Keith always clung to her.
"His mother always said he was a bit of a mama's boy," Wyman revealed. "He used to cry a lot and be frightened of being left at school and all. But that's because he's an only child."
And Wyman said drummer Charlie Watts was a creative child, or else the world may not have seen him as a great drummer.
Wyman said Watts wanted to play banjo as a boy but couldn't get the hang of it. Watts was an enterprising sort, so he took apart the banjo and made himself a drum.
Wyman said the idea paid off.
Keith Richards
Shreds Teen Pop Image
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera considers her new disc, "Stripped," a chance for people to finally get to know who she really is — to "see the bare me."
The album's first single, "Dirrty," shocked the usually unshockable audience for music videos by featuring the former Mousketeer, dressed in a tiny bikini, grinding against other dancers.
The cover of her new disc shows her topless, covered only by her long locks. And she's completely naked on the new cover of Rolling Stone — save for a strategically placed guitar.
While the "Dirrty" video has been at or near No. 1 on MTV's "Total Request Live," the song peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard singles chart. "Saturday Night Live" skewered the video's raunch.
And Aguilera's scanty outfits have drawn barbs in the press (including the barely-there halter top she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards in August).
A graduate of the new Mickey Mouse Club along with Britney Spears and members of 'N Sync, Aguilera shot to fame three years ago as part of a teen pop craze. With a powerful voice comparable
to Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston, she scored instant success with songs such as "Genie in a Bottle" and "Come on Over Baby."
So instead of cheerful, pleasing pop tunes, the new disc has brooding ballads, introspective songs and hip-hop collaborations with Redman and Lil' Kim. Aguilera co-wrote most of the songs. Her changed look includes
black streaks and braids in her blond hair, and piercings in her nose and underneath her lip, among other places.
Christina Aguilera
www.christina-a.com
Snarky Photos
Sued by Publicist
Anna Nicole & Lawyer
Anna Nicole Smith, a former Playboy Playmate and billionaire's wife who currently stars in a television series about her outlandish daily life, is being sued by a New York
publicity company for millions of dollars in damages for allegedly not paying her bills.
Smith, the 34-year-old buxom model who has been in court repeatedly in recent years to get a part of the estate of her deceased husband, a billionaire oil tycoon, faces a
lawsuit over about $155,000 in allegedly unpaid bills and legal fees.
The suit also seeks $25 million in damages from Smith and her lawyer, Howard Stern.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, claims Smith retained David Granoff Public Relations through an oral contract from April 2000 until late September.
During that time, Granoff claims he helped Smith secure her show with E! Entertainment as well as photo spreads in magazines including "Vanity Fair" and Cuervo Gold commercials in Latin America.
Anna Nicole & Lawyer
Corner Of Hollywood & Vine
Motion Picture Hall of Fame
Their handprints are embedded in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, their names are enshrined in sidewalk stars on Hollywood Boulevard
and their life-sized likenesses on display in the Hollywood Wax Museum.
Now, those larger-than-life stars -- and the directors, writers and composers who have helped immortalize them on the silver screen -- are getting their own hall of fame.
A group of businessmen announced Tuesday the establishment of a $25 million Motion Picture Hall of Fame, scheduled to open in 2004 at the corner of Hollywood and
Vine -- or Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.
The new hall will be housed in a converted office building and will not be a museum, insisted civic leader Johnny Grant, the self-styled "Honorary Mayor of Hollywood."
The hall will include interactive exhibits, such as a "giant camera walk-through," with magnified moving parts, and the "Pillars of Fame," with monumental
displays of inductees. There will also be halls of horror, comedy and science fiction, with interactive exhibits showing how to make genre movies.
Motion Picture Hall of Fame
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Backs Doctors On Marijuana
A federal appeals court ruled for the first time Tuesday that the government cannot revoke doctors' prescription licenses for recommending marijuana to sick patients.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously found that the Justice Department's policy interferes with the free-speech rights of doctors and patients.
The 9th Circuit upheld a 2-year-old court order prohibiting the government from stripping doctors of their licenses to dispense medication. The policy was blocked before any licenses were actually revoked.
The government argued that doctors were aiding and abetting criminal activity for recommending marijuana because it is an illegal drug under federal narcotics laws.
But the appeals court said doctors have a constitutional right to speak candidly with their patients about marijuana without fear of government sanctions.
The court said doctors could get in trouble only if they actually helped patients obtain marijuana. Merely recommending the drug "does not translate into aiding and abetting, or conspiracy," Schroeder said.
Backs Doctors On Marijuana
Denies Defecation Charge
Najeh Davenport
Green Bay Packers fullback Najeh Davenport agreed Tuesday to do community service to settle charges he broke into a university dormitory and defecated in a sleeping woman's closet.
Details of the player's service were not released during his court appearance. He must sign up for the program by Nov. 12. If he completes the program, a felony charge of
second-degree burglary and a misdemeanor count of criminal mischief will be dropped.
After Tuesday's hearing, Davenport continued to deny breaking into the Barry University dormitory.
According to police, Davenport entered a dorm room at Barry University in the early morning hours of April 1.
Mary McCarthy, asleep in the room, told police she was startled awake by a strange sound and saw a man squatting in her closet. The man, later identified as Davenport,
had defecated in her laundry basket, police said.
Najeh Davenport
White Bengal Tigers
Siegfried & Roy
Siegfried Fischbacher (à gauche) et Roy Horn, producteurs d'un spectacle à succès à Las Vegas, présentent aux journalistes trois bébés tigres du Bengale, âgés de six jours. Les illusionnistes et amateurs de félins, ont promis qu'il
donneraient bientôt des noms aux petits tigres.
Photo by Jeff Klein
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