'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
November 12, 2002
Defying historical trends, the Democratic Party managed to
lose control of the Senate during a midterm election.
Richard Gephardt responded to his party's catastrophic
failure by announcing that he will not seek reelection as
House minority leader; he will instead prepare for a
presidential run in 2004.
France and Russia, after weeks of
dickering, voted in favor of a United Nations Security
Council resolution on Iraq after the United States agreed to
change the word "and" to "or" and the word "secure" to
"restore."
"This would be the 17th time that we expect
Saddam to disarm," said President George W. Bush. "This time
we mean it. This time it's for real."
American officials
claimed that the resolution was a "mousetrap" that gives the
U.S. the right to go to war unilaterally; Europeans pointed
to assurances from American diplomats that the document
contains "no hidden triggers." President Bush settled on a
war plan for Iraq that will include a short air campaign
followed by rapid ground operations involving about 250,000
troops.
Administration officials confided that they were
hoping for a defiant challenge from Saddam Hussein rather than a
slow drawn-out refusal that could fritter away the
strategically important winter months, which are the best
time for fighting a war in the Middle East. "I think a lot
of people are saying, you know, gosh, we hope we don't have
war," President Bush said. "I feel the same way."
A million
people converged on Florence, Italy, to protest the coming
war. French prostitutes took to the streets in Paris to
protest new restrictions on the sex trade.
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
-- Roger D. Hodge
Vote on Paper!
Jeff Crook
Since I have a hard time getting excited about any
political candidate, my personal jihad for the next
two years will be against any form of electronic
voting. Back in the old days, if you wanted to rig an
election, you had to physically stuff a ballot box or
hide the damn thing in the trunk of your car. Back in
those days, you might get caught with a couple thousand
opposition party votes in the attic of your
grandmother's house and go to jail. Nowadays, with
touchscreen technology, there's no need. Electronic
voting leaves no paper trail, no fingerprints to lead
back to yours truly.
In fact, if you even try to break
the code on one of those machines to check for
election tampering, it will get you five years under
the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Whoever builds
the machine says who wins. It's so simple it would be
naive to think someone won't do it. If you could
electronically transfer millions of dollars to your
bank account with a guaranteed zero chance of your
ever being caught, wouldn't you do it? Wouldn't damn
near everybody? Someone will steal an election with
electronic voting, without a doubt. In all
probability, it has already happened.
Never use an electronic voting machine again. Next
time you vote, ask for a paper ballot. They have to
give it to you. And tell your friends and family. This
isn't Republican or Democrat, it is a question of
democracy. With electronic voting, whoever programs
the machine says how you vote. And there isn't a damn
thing you can do about it, except to Vote on Paper.
Jeff Crook
http://jeffcrook.20m.com
Thanks, Jeff!
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''Gore's Internet''
from Alvin
Al Gore invented the internet, while George Bush made famous - the blank stare
MIDILink
GORE'S INTERNET
{Sung to 'Tom's Diner' by Suzanne Vega}
by alvin
{As Sung By pResident? Bush}
I was sitting in a chat room
Feeling mildly amused
When I saw something strange
That left me all confused
Someone typed a word
And as far as I could tell
I had never seen before
What is an LOL?
Then the plot got thicker
More words I didn't know
A person started typing
The word LMAO
I sat there in amazement
Words in acronym or ebonics?
Or could it be these people
Were speaking in a code?
{break}
That's when I looked closer
And found the subtle clue
I figured out this code
And I'll share it now with you
Listen to Dubya's wisdom
LOL is three little words
That seem to me quite shady
The words, 'Lean Over Lady!'
LMAO was more obscure
It made me sweat my balls
LMAO is a command
Meaning, 'Leave Me Alone, Ox!'
I can't believe this world wide web
Why Gore let these codes to exist
To the net I say, YODSL
Meaning, 'You're On Dubya's Sh!t List!'...
Thanks again
Alvin D
Thanks, Alvin
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The Santa Ana's are finally starting to blow - unusually warm today. Jo (the remaining lizard) was a happy camper.
The counter crapped out last week, and the new one wouldn't allow any pre-setting of numbers, so it was reset to 0. Anyway, being a bit on the anal retentive side, and having
an appreciation of numbers, early Tuesday morning, this page had it's 200,000th hit! Hot damn!
Made a point of staying up for Peter Boyle on Craiggers Monday night, and was struck by the factoid that he is one of the finest actors of our age, and, yet, he's the only
adult on 'Raymond' without an Emmy!
Anyone else following Dave ragging on Dr. Phil?
All right, Dave!
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', then a fresh 'Amazing Race 3' followed by a fresh 'Presidio Med'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Joey Pantoliano and Mark Knopfler.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Kermit the Frog and comic David J. Nash.
NBC has a fresh 'Ed', then a fresh 'West Wing', and caps the night with a fresh 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Adam Sandler, Rupert Grint, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Regis Philbin, Ja Rule, and Greg Giraldo.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and the Wallflowers.
ABC opens with a fresh 'My Wife & Kids', then a fresh 'George Lopez', followed by a fresh 'The Bachelor: The Women Tell All', and finished off the evening with 'Primetime Special Edition'.
The WB has a fresh 'Dawson's Creek' and a fresh 'Birds Of Prey'.
Faux has a fresh 'Bernie Mac', then a fresh 'Cedric The Entertainer', and a fresh 'Fastlane'.
UPN has a fresh 'Enterprise' and a fresh 'Twilight Zone'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Acrobatic Performers
'Golden Lions'
China's acrobatic performers, Yan Ni, top, and Miao Chag Wei show their pliable and powerful skills during a news conference in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002, announcing a total of
80 China's top performers will stage 33 shows in Tokyo from Dec. 14 until Jan. 3, 2003. The event titled the 'Golden Lions,' directed by Japan's leading producer team, commemorates
the 30th anniversary of normalization of the Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations.
Photo by Tsugufumi Matsumoto
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Developing 'Mr. and Mr. Nash' For ABC
Steve Martin
ABC is developing a gay version of "Hart to Hart," in which a pair of interior decorators stumble upon a murder each week.
The network has ordered a script for "Mr. and Mr. Nash," and Alan Cumming ("Cabaret") has signed to play one of the leads.
The project is being developed by Steve Martin's production company, along with Carsey-Werner-Mandabach, the banner behind "That '70s Show."
Steve Martin
Trinity College = 'Jedi Archives'?
George Lucas
"Star Wars" director George Lucas, please phone home...or at least get in touch with the library at Trinity College, Dublin.
Library administrator Robin Adams would like to discuss an uncanny resemblance between the 18th-century Long Room Library at Trinity, and the "Jedi Archives" in
the latest episode of the "Star Wars" epic.
A picture of the Jedi Archives from the film "Star Wars Episode II--Attack of the Clones" sits side by side with a photograph of The Long Room on the Web Site
of the Architectural Association of Ireland (www.irish-architecture.com).
Not only is the vaulted ceiling exactly the same, but even the statues are in almost identical places. Some wags say if you look hard enough, you might see Trinity
enfant terrible Oscar Wilde peeking out from the Jedi stacks.
George Lucas
Aniama, Ivory Coast
Cola Nuts
Workers sort cola nuts in Aniama near Abidjan, Ivory Coast, November 6, 2002. For Mali and other landlocked countries of West Africa, the shortage of cola nuts is
an early warning of the crippling damage that a long war in Ivory Coast would do to struggling economies and miserable living standards.
Photo by Luc Gnago
Says New Album Will Be Her Last
Joni Mitchell
Veteran singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, disgusted with the music business, has said her latest album will also be her last.
"I'm quitting after this because the business has made itself so repugnant to me," Mitchell, 59, was quoted as telling the December edition of W magazine in an interview.
In the W magazine interview, she blasted the recording industry as "the most corrupt one of all. They try not to pay you whenever possible."
Venting her scorn on contemporary artists -- including Madonna -- Mitchell said of music industry executives;
"They're not looking for talent. They're looking for a look and a willingness to cooperate. And a woman my age, no matter how well preserved, no longer has the look.
And I've never had a willingness to cooperate."
As for Madonna, who was once quoted as saying that as a teenager she had adored Mitchell: "She has knocked the importance of talent out of the arena. She's manufactured.
She's made a lot of money and become the biggest star in the world by hiring the right people," Mitchell said.
"Travelogue," a two-disc collection, features some but not all of Mitchell's greatest hits. It was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and a backing band that
includes Herbie Hancock, Billy Preston and Wayne Shorter and will be released on November 18.
Joni Mitchell
Dublin High-Rise
U2 New Tenants
Dublin's docklands redevelopers, who angered U2 by tearing down the group's hallowed old studios, are giving Bono and his colleagues a high-rise penthouse replacement, the two sides announced Tuesday.
Earlier this year the state-backed developers successfully fought U2 in court for the right to tear down a building at Hanover Quay where the band had recorded most of its
records since the early 1980s. The building became a place of pilgrimage for U2 devotees, some of whom spray-painted elaborate graffiti on its dingy red-brick walls.
The developers said Tuesday their plans to construct a landmark high-rise at nearby Britain Quay would have one key design requirement: U2 has to get the top two floors for its new studios.
The two sides didn't reveal the financial terms of the deal.
As part of Tuesday's announcement, U2 will be given a vote on the committee that picks the winning architectural design for the 180-foot (60-meter) tower.
U2 New Tenants
Released From Hospital
Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons, a saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has been released from the hospital following eye surgery to repair a detached retina, publicist Anne McDermott said.
Clemons, 60, underwent surgery at Houston's Memorial Hermann Hospital following a Nov. 4 show. Springsteen then postponed concerts in Austin; Columbus, Ohio; and Indianapolis.
The band is scheduled to resume the second leg of its U.S. tour in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.
Clarence Clemons
Bruce Springsteen Web site
Suing The National Enquirer
Sally Jessy Raphael
Sally Jessy Raphael is suing The National Enquirer for saying she had a "mental breakdown" after her long-running talk show was cancelled last spring.
Raphael will announce a "landmark libel lawsuit" against The Enquirer today in a midtown press conference, according to her publicist.
The Enquirer story, which ran in the Oct. 22 issue, claimed that a "distraught" Raphael, 67, "suffered a mental breakdown" and required psychiatric treatment twice at Lenox Hill Hospital
after her talk show, "Sally Jessy Raphael," was canned last spring after nearly 20 years on the air due to dwindling ratings.
A spokesman for American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer said, "American Media stands behind its story fully and will vigorously defend itself in any lawsuit that will be filed."
Sally Jessy Raphael
Sues Marvel for Profit Cut
Stan Lee
The creator of Spider-Man and other superheroes sued Marvel Enterprises Inc. on Tuesday, alleging it has trampled on his rights and broken promises to pay him a cut of the profits from the commercial success of his characters.
Stan Lee, the 79-year-old artist behind Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and Daredevil, is seeking 10 percent of the profits earned from this year's hit film "Spider-Man: The Movie" and
other films and television shows. The suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, also names Marvel Characters as a defendant.
The Spider-Man movie grossed $114 million in its record-breaking opening weekend and has earned more than $1 billion worldwide, the suit said. Lee said he created the Spider-Man character about 40 years ago.
The DVD and videocassette versions of the movie went on sale Nov. 1 and executives of Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Entertainment reported that sales were expected to generate more than $190 million
in North America alone in the first three days on the market, according to the suit.
Lee alleged in his suit that despite all the acclaim for his characters, the defendants "embarked upon a shameful scheme to keep Mr. Lee from participating in the commercial success of his creations.
The suit said the defendants' actions are especially egregious given that Lee was initially employed by the defendants or their predecessors in 1939, and his 60-plus year association with them
followed. Lee was first hired at age 17 to be an office errand-boy for Marvel's predecessor, Timely.
Stan Lee
Candidates Spent Over $1 Billion On Ads
U.S. Broadcasters
U.S. broadcasters saw candidates and third-party groups spend more than $1 billion -- more than $80 million from New York stations alone -- in securing airtime for election spots,
an all-time record and nearly double the amount spent on political blurbs in the 1998 midterm election.
The Campaign Media Analysis Group, a private tracking firm, compiled the figures released by the Washington-based Alliance for Better Campaigns.
Broadcasters in New York and Los Angeles led the country in making the most money this election season from political advertisements, the Alliance said.
Gotham TV stations took in more than $81 million, while stations in Los Angeles generated more than $71 million.
For more, U.S. Broadcasters
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
In Talks With HBO
Bill Maher
Comedian Bill Maher, whose late-night series "Politically Incorrect" was axed by ABC after a post-Sept. 11 uproar that refused to die down, is in talks to host a new
show on cable channel Home Box Office.
The Washington Post reported that Maher had signed with HBO to do a weekly series slated to air next spring, but a spokeswoman for the premium cable network said only on
Tuesday, "We are in conversations with Bill."
According to the Post, Maher's latest show, as yet untitled, would follow a format similar to that of "Politically Incorrect," in which he would discuss current events and
skewer society's biggest sacred cows with a group of invited guests.
A deal with HBO, a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc., would mark a return to cable TV for the 46-year-old comedian, whose "Politically Incorrect" series started out in 1993 on
the Comedy Central channel and moved to ABC a few years later. It originally was produced at HBO.
Bill Maher
Manama, Bahrain
Dairy Queen
An unidentified woman passes below a Dairy Queen burger advertisement signboard in Manama, Bahrain, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002 that reads in Arabic and English ' Ramadan Kareem (greeting ramadan) Deluxe Double Cheesburger - half price'.
During Ramadan, observant Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex between sunrise and sunset to renew themselves spiritually. From dawn to dusk all the resturants are closed in Bahrain.
Photo by Ali Fraidoon
Not A Coleman Fan
Garrison Keillor
'' ..... (Minnesota) has Garrison Keillor gnashing his teeth in rage. After Norm Coleman soundly trounced Walter Mondale in the U.S. Senate race, Keillor launched a(n) attack on
the senator-elect on salon.com. Recalling a dinner party in St. Paul at which then-mayor Coleman gave a speech about native son F. Scott Fitzgerald, Keillor snipes, "[It] was soon
clear to anyone who has ever graded ninth-grade book reports that the mayor had never read Fitzgerald," reports the Washington Post.
Garrison Keillor
Life Achievement Award From Actors Union
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood will receive the Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild for more than four decades of acting, directing and producing.
Eastwood will receive the honor next year at the 9th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards show in Los Angeles on March 9, which will air on Turner Network Television.
SAG's Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment goes annually to an actor who fosters the highest ideals of the profession, the guild said.
Previous recipients include Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon and Katharine Hepburn.
Clint Eastwood
Screen Actors Guild
VH1 Big in 2002 Awards
de Matteo & Imperioli To Host
Drea de Matteo and Michael Imperioli of "The Sopranos" will be hosts of the offbeat VH1 Big in 2002 Awards.
The award ceremony, airing 9 p.m. EST Sunday, Dec. 15, pays tribute to "those moments and people that captivated and inspired us in 2002," according to the cable channel.
Categories include "Can't Get You Out of My Head," honoring the year's most ubiquitous song, and "Been Caught Scene Stealin,'" which picks the most unexpected stand-out movie performance.
Winners are decided by a panel of "tastemakers" from the fields of entertainment, sports and government, along with pop culture consumers, VH1 said. Five
categories, including ubiquitous song, are decided by online voting.
de Matteo & Imperioli To Host
www.VH1.com
NBC Sitcom Deal
Artie Lange
Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange is developing an NBC sitcom in which he will play a man caught between his blue-collar roots and his current life as a moderately successful sitcom star.
Lange will write and executive produce the DreamWorks pilot with veteran "Simpsons" scribe-producer Sam Simon.
It will be based in part on Lange's own experiences as a New Jersey guy who has found success via "Mad TV" and his current gig as a comic on Stern's breakfastcast.
Artie Lange
BartCop TV!
Restaurant Brawl
Larry Clark
Edgy director Larry Clark will need to find another U.K. distributor for his new film "Ken Park" after he punched the executive who owned the local rights.
Metro Tartan said on Monday it canceled its distribution deal for the sexually explicit film about skateboarding California kids as a result of Thursday night's brawl
between Clark and company executive Hamish McAlpine
Clark threw a punch at McAlpine in a London restaurant after a row about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clark was held by police and released with a warning.
McAlpine told Daily Variety: "The staff voted unanimously in my absence that they didn't want to work with Larry Clark. We wanted to leave the film in the festival,
but Clark refused to leave the U.K., which was our condition for presenting the film in the festival."
Clark, meanwhile, told Daily Variety he is going to anger management. His film credits include the similarly explicit "Kids" and "Bully."
Larry Clark
Australia
Griffith
A huge dust cloud rolls over the Australian town of Griffith, 248 miles southwest of Sydney, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002, after high winds whipped up top soil dried from a prolonged drought.
Australia is in the grips of a devastating drought, one of the worst on record, slashing agricultural production across the country.
Photo by Denis Couch
Another Anna Nicole Smith Lawsuit
Bobby Trendy
Another Anna Nicole Smith minion is suing the TV trainwreck for not paying her bills. In the wake of The Post's report that Smith's former flack David Granoff sued her for $155,000 for services
rendered but not paid for, Smith's flamboyant decorator Bobby Trendy says he was stiffed too. Apparently, Trendy is also steamed that Smith has made catty remarks about him on her show. "She is
such trash," the West Hollywood decorator tells Star. "She should have gone furniture shopping at a flea market. How dare she defame me and my work!" Trendy says that Smith, who told him she makes
only $12,000 per episode and doesn't have access to her late husband's money yet, has $50,000 of his furniture she hasn't paid for that he's going to have repossessed. "She's going to be sitting
on the floor again, like she used to before she met her husband," he sniffs. Smith's lawyer Howard K. Stern counters that the $14,000 fee Trendy was paid should more than compensate him for the furnishings.
Bobby Trendy
Ordered to Face Trial in Georgia
Bobby Brown
A Georgia judge on Tuesday ordered singer Bobby Brown, arrested last week in Atlanta on drug and speeding charges, to stand trial later this month on 1996 charges including driving
under the influence of alcohol.
Brown, the 33-year-old husband of pop diva Whitney Houston, stood silently in a courtroom in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, Georgia, as DeKalb County Judge Wayne Purdom ordered
him to return to court on Nov. 25 to face trial on the six-year-old misdemeanor charges.
Xavier Dicks, Brown's lawyer, said he had held talks with DeKalb County prosecutors in an effort to resolve the 1996 charges.
The 1996 charges resurfaced when the singer was arrested last Thursday in Atlanta and charged with possessing less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and having no driver's license or proof of insurance.
Bobby Brown
Returns To 'Pyramid'
Dick Clark
Former host Dick Clark is returning to the game show "Pyramid" - this time as a contestant.
Clark plans to appear later this month on the revised version of his "The $100,000 Pyramid," the trade newspaper Variety reported Monday. He hosted the daytime program from 1973 to 1988.
Donny Osmond is the new overseer of the quiz show. Stars Betty White and Coolio are set to join Clark in episodes scheduled to air Nov. 25-27.
Clark previously appeared as a player on the show when Bill Cullen hosted a once-a-week prime time version of "Pyramid" between 1974 and 1979.
Dick Clark
Play Protesters For Desert Urban Warfare Training
40 Actors
Forty actors drafted to portray protesters shouted "Go home USA" in a mock confrontation with 350 soldiers descending on a fictitious Arab town, a
scenario troops may face in a war with Iraq.
The Army's First Squadron 14th Cavalry Squadron, based in Fort Lewis, Wash., was training Friday for urban warfare at the Southern California Logistics
Airport. The mission was to keep peace and purge a terrorist cell.
About 40 civilian actors gathered by a local casting company were paid to play town citizens whose mood about the Americans ranged from eager-to-please
to downright hostile. The scenario played out in the abandoned housing area of the former George Air Force Base.
For the rest, 40 Actors
Rules The Ratings
'CSI'
How times have changed in programming strategy!
Used to be, the networks souped up the schedule with specials during ultra-competitive November sweeps.
Now the watchword is "stability," as evidenced by last week's Nielsen rankings that found only one special program — CBS' 11th-place Country Music Association awards — among the top 30.
Otherwise, TV's big winners were the usual suspects, notably NBC's powerful Thursday night slate; CBS' Thursday rivals "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and
"Survivor: Thailand;" CBS' Monday heavyweights "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "CSI: Miami"; ABC's Monday night football, and NBC's "Law & Order" trio.
"CSI" retained its title as the week's most-watched show, according to Nielsen Media Research ratings released Tuesday.
For the week of Nov. 4-10, the top 10 shows, their networks and ratings: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 17.2; "Friends," NBC, 17.0; "ER," NBC, 15.5; "Will & Grace," NBC, 13.4;
"Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 13.1; "Monday Night Football: Miami at Green Bay," ABC, 12.8; "Law & Order," NBC, 12.6; "CSI: Miami," CBS, 12.1; "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 11.6; "Survivor: Thailand," CBS, 11.3.
'CSI'
In Memory
Margaret "Peg" Phillips
Margaret "Peg" Phillips, a retired accountant who took acting classes at age 65 and won fame as the tart-tongued shopkeeper Ruth-Anne Miller in the television series
"Northern Exposure," has died. She was 84.
Phillips, an unrepentant smoker, died Thursday morning of lung disease at a suburban care center.
She appeared in at least eight movies, a number of television commercials and made guest appearances in such TV shows as "7th Heaven," "Touched By an Angel" and "ER."
She appeared with Shirley MacLaine in "Waiting for the Light" (1990) and in the made-for-TV movies "How the West Was Fun" (1994) and "Chase" (1985).
"Peg Phillips' memorable portrayal of Ruth-Anne Miller on 'Northern Exposure' left an indelible imprint with the millions of loyal fans of this groundbreaking series, as well as with everyone at the network who had the opportunity to know and work with her," CBS officials said in a statement
Scorning pretension, she wore blue jeans, a red and white checked blouse, blue suspenders and brown sandals to the Emmy Awards ceremony in 1993 when she was nominated for best supporting actress. When asked who designed her outfit, she replied, "Me."
Phillips founded the Woodinville Repertory Theater in Woodinville, a suburb northeast of Seattle where she moved to a 100-year-old farmhouse in 1977. Her last stage appearance was in the company's production of "Bell, Book and Candle" in 1999.
In 1987 she founded Theater Inside, a drama program for juvenile offenders at the Echo Glen Children's Center in Snoqualmie. She continued to work as a volunteer in the program until her health failed in recent years.
Born in Everett, Phillips overcame polio, peritonitis, a ruptured aorta and, at age 81, a broken hip and wrist from being hit by a car.
She lived through the attack on Pearl Harbor while her first husband, Daniel Greene, was stationed in Hawaii. Her second husband was Chester Phillips.
She wanted to be an actress from age 4 but worked as a bookkeeper and tax accountant to pay the bills and rear her four children.
Only after retiring did she enroll in the University of Washington drama school in 1984. She soon landed so many jobs that she was unable to complete her degree.
In 1990 she was cast in what was supposed to be an intermittent role in "Northern Exposure," a CBS series on the fish-out-of-water travails of a New York doctor working off his student loan in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska.
Shot in suburban Redmond and Roslyn, 65 miles east-southeast of Seattle, the show began as a summer replacement series but became so strong in the ratings it ran through 1995.
Similarly, Phillips made her character so popular she was given a regular role.
On occasional she wrote her own lines. Criticized for smoking in one episode, she retorted, "I've been smoking since I was 13 years old, and during the Eisenhower administration I peaked at three packs a day. I'm not about to stop now."
Survivors include two daughters, four grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
A memorial service was scheduled for Saturday in Bellevue.
Peg Phillips
Brasilia, Brazil
Lears Macaw
A rare Brazilian Lears Macaw is shown at a zoological garden after police rescued it from animal smugglers, in Brasilia, November 11, 2002. Ilegal animal smuggling in Brazil is a big business,
coming second only to drug and arms trafficking.
Photo by Jamil Bittar
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