Who's Going To Hell This Week
Helen A. Handbasket
Reader CD Recommendation
From 'MadDog'
The Big Dog and Hillary have credits on a current CD!
I purchased "A Very Special Christmas 5" CD today. The proceeds go to the Special Olympics.
Besides a nice letter from Eunice Kennedy Schriver, there were some interesting "special thanks" names.
The long list began with thanks to President Bill and Sen. Hillary Clinton and Jamie Lee Curtis.
THIS MADE MY DAY!
~~ MadDog
Thanks, MadDog - Will definitely check it out!
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Reader TV Suggestion
'The Godfather' On TNN
You forgot to mention something when you talked about tonight's
TV...one of the best movies of ALL TIME....unedited for TV... The Godfather
on TNN! If your other shows are reruns, tune into the UNEDITED running of
The Godfather (part II is on tomorrow as well). Thought you should know.
~~ Mike K.
Thanks, Mike....keep forgetting that TNN now offers more than videos of people
with very interesting hair doing the Texas 2-Step.
Reader Review
''My VH1 Awards''
Last night's performance on the My VH1 Music Awards confirmed what I have
believed all along: No Doubt is TRASH!!!
They look like trash, they sound like trash, and pardon me, but Gwen Stefani is "cute"?
She comes across as white trash if ever such existed. For crying out loud, her "hero" is
Madonna Ciccone, the biggest trashy, slutty whore in pop music today, so what does that make
Gwen Stefani? A white trash SLUT!
There's no doubt alright, this band is trash!
It's time for these hepcats to shave, shower and go to college or find another job. As for Gwen
Stefani, crawl back into bed and keep your mouth shut, trash!
George Mullins
Thanks, George...guess you didn't like some of the show. On the other hand, without
'white trash', my family reunion would be no damn fun.
Cool Links
Cool Cartoons
Bush Wanted
behold the golden snitch...
Marc, the artist behind the links above does some pretty interesting work.
Thanks, Marc
Weekly Review
from Harper's Magazine
WEEKLY REVIEW - 4 December, 2001
President Bush sent an envoy to Israel with the aim of restarting peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. Hamas proved
that it still has the power to prevent such negotiations by sending a wave of suicide bombers into Israel, which culminated
in a double bombing on a crowded Jerusalem street that left at least 10 people dead. Body parts littered the neighborhood.
Yasir Arafat declared a state of emergency and arrested 110 suspected Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants. Israel
retaliated by bombing Gaza City with cruise missiles. Prime Minister Sharon "declared war on terror."
A paper in the scientific journal Human Immunology found that Jews and Palestinians have no significant
genetic differences; after receiving complaints, the journal's editor repudiated the paper and sent letters
to libraries asking them to rip out the offending pages.
Prime Minister Sharon said he wanted to see a million new Jewish immigrants, particularly from Argentina, France,
and South Africa.
Rael, the leader of a Canadian UFO cult called the Raelians, which supports a company called Clonaid, said that his group
had already cloned a human embryo, dismissing Advanced Cell Technology's claim to have done so first. Raelians wish to clone
full-grown humans into whom memories and such can be downloaded: "That is what interests us Ñ it is to be able to live
eternally through several bodies."
"The use of embryos to clone is wrong," President Bush declared. "We should not as a society grow life to destroy life."
Objections by the United States prevented an international agreement that would have limited the advertising of tobacco products, which are
estimated to kill 4 million people each year.
Japan reported another case of mad cow disease and was preparing to slaughter 5,129 cows
which might have been exposed to the disease.
Crown Princess Masako of Japan gave birth to a baby girl.
( continued at Weekly Review )
--Roger D. Hodge
''European Of The Year''
Bono
Irish rock singer Bono and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were among winners of ``European
of the Year'' awards unveiled by a Brussels weekly magazine Tuesday.
The top award presented by European Voice went to U2 lead singer Bono for his efforts to
promote debt relief for poor countries.
A panel of journalists and opinion leaders from across the EU selected 50 nominees for the
awards and European Voice readers then voted for the people they felt had most shaped the EU agenda in the past year.
None of the best-known award winners attended a Brussels ceremony Tuesday evening.
But in a message read on his behalf by Irish ambassador to the EU Anne Anderson, Bono spoke
of the heroism of New York City police, firefighters and medical crews after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
``The only really fitting memorial to the lives that were lost on that day would be not just
a safer, less dangerous world but a fairer, more inclusive one,'' he said.
This was the goal that the Drop the Debt campaign, which lobbies for debt forgiveness for the
world's poorest countries, was pursuing, he said.
Bono has supported the work of Drop the Debt and its predecessor, the Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign.
''European Of The Year''
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Did a lot of surfing tonight.
3 of the 4 PBS stations had a show on 'Blenko Glass, which was pretty interesting. (In
glass terms, I grew up midway between 'Corning' & 'Brockway').
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS gets down to the basics on 'The Amazing Race', and whittles
3 teams to 2. It's also a 2-parter (big surprise). This episode is sandwiched between '60 Minutes II,
and '48 Hours', kind of a festival of Dan Rather.
NBC has repeats of 'Ed', 'The West Wing', and 'Law & Order'. The 'West Wing'
episode is notable for the appearance of Mary Kay Place, the Surgeon General who wants pot legalized.
Mary Kay Place was Loretta Jeter (the adoptive mother of the 'Rev.' Jimmy Joe Jeter, child evangelist)
on 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'. She also wrote a few episodes of
'M*A*S*H'.
ABC has 2 hours of sitcom reruns ('My Wife & Kids', 'According To Jim', 'Drew Carey',
and 'Whose Line Is It, Anyway'), followed by a fresh '20/20'.
The WB offers a repeat 'Dawson's Creek', and a fresh 'Felicity'.
Even 'Enterprise' on UPN is a repeat - the one where they find alien corpses on an 'abandoned' ship.
Faux has fresh episodes of 'Titus', 'Grounded For Life', 'Bernie Mac', and 'The
Tick'.
AMC has 'Catch 22', which is a wonderful movie if you've read the book (so you know what is going on...otherwise
the 'save the bombadier' makes no sense, among other things).
And, as Mike K. pointed out, don't forget the 2nd half of 'The Godfather' on TNN.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Centennial Celebration Today
Walt Disney
On what would have been Walt Disney's 100th birthday, relatives want the world to know more about
the man behind the corporate name.
Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation, will mark his uncle's birthday at festivities Wednesday
at Walt Disney World in Orlando.
A smaller celebration is planned at Disneyland in Anaheim, where a statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse
will be rededicated. Disneyland also plans to sell souvenir buttons and mini anniversary cakes with Disney's image on them.
The animation pioneer died of lung cancer in 1966 at age 65.
Roy Disney began working for his uncle after graduating from college in 1951. He said he learned
a lot from Walt Disney, an inspirational, hard-working man who had high standards.
``I got no points for being related,'' Disney said. ``He was plenty tough on me and everybody.
He was so quick at picking up mistakes or problems. It just comes down to genius and he clearly
had that even at the beginning of his career.''
Walt Disney Centennial
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To Star As 'Jackie Gleason'
Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane will star as Jackie Gleason in ``To the Moon,'' a biopic about the jocular thesp.
Rob Festinger (``In the Bedroom'') is writing the script, which is being developed by Mirage Enterprises,
the production company run by directors Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella.
Gleason, immortalized on ``The Honeymooners,'' was discovered on Gotham's nightclub circuit by Jack
Warner and starred in several Hollywood pictures and Broadway musicals before making his TV debut.
``Jackie Gleason has been a huge influence on me since I was a child,'' Lane said. ``The thing that
gets to me about him is that despite the bravado of his public persona and the broad hilarity of some
of his comedy, there remains a tremendous amount of sadness and vulnerability in his eyes. Hopefully
we will explore that in the film.''
Nathan Lane To Play Jackie Gleason
High Maintenance Costs
The Price Of Beauty
Britney Spears, may be an - ahem - natural beauty, but Lord knows not everyone can look like the 20-year-old pop princess.
That is, unless you have $100,000 and change to pay a top team of plastic surgeons, stylists, dentists and other cosmetic pros.
Here's a breakdown of how much the average New Yorker would have to pay for the teen queen's physique. Pain medication not included.
NOSE JOB: Doctors say many patients ask for Britney's cute-as-a button schnoz.
Cost: Up to $6,500
BRIGHT EYES: Even teens are opting for upper eye "blepheroplasty," said Manhattan plastic surgeon Dr. Howard Bellin, who says the fat-removal lid procedure makes eyes look bigger and lighter.
Cost: Up to $4,000
LIP AUGMENTATION: How's this for appetizing? Bellin cuts into the crease of the buttock and removes a line of fat, which is then placed into the lip via two small incisions.
Cost: Up to $5,000
BREAST AUGMENTATION: Britney says a "growth spurt" gave her envious curves, but the less-endowed have to pay for such privileges.
Cost: Up to $10,000
CHEEK AND CHIN IMPLANTS: Dr. Richard Skolnik says chin implants make the nose look smaller, and the face is just more in proportion and framed."
Cost: Up to $7,500.
PERFECT TEETH: Dr. Larry "Celebrity Smile" Rosenthal's "smile lift" involves transparent sculpted porcelain veneers (OM3 is the hot shade right now) placed over the sheered-down natural teeth. Rosenthal builds out the veneers on the top side teeth so the lips look fuller.
Cost: Up to $25,000
SOFT SKIN: To keep a billionaire teen pop queen looking pimple, wrinkle and squint-line free, Manhattan plastic surgeon Dr . Steven Victor recommends laser facials, laser crow's feet removal and Botox.
Cost: Up to $3,200
BODY SCULPTING: Can be done on stomach, thighs and knees. For a pucker- and ripple-proof perfection, Bellin has his patients stand up during the surgery.
Cost: Up to $20,000
HUMAN HAIR EXTENSIONS: The really cheap stuff is horsy or acrylic. Human hair extensions, which are usually stitched onto small braids, can cost plenty.
Cost: Up to $5,000
PERMA-TAN: Achieve that tawny glow with a Perfect Pro Tanning machine, the home version.
Cost: Up to $6,480
NAILS: You think Britney goes to a salon? For a home visit from a top manicurist, it's an easy $500.
Cost: Up to $6,000 per year
FULL-BODY WAX: It's not much fun, but if you want to remain fur-free at all times, make bi-weekly trips to the J. Sisters in Midtown, who charge $105 a rip. Eyebrows are $45.
Total: $3,600 per year
Total Cost: $102,280
High Maintenance Upkeep
Getting Little Cooperation
Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera's dream of being a war correspondent is said to be running into some resistance from our own armed forces. And
even former fighting leatherneck Oliver North, who's been shown the red carpet on U.S. Navy carriers, is powerless to help him, we hear.
Rivera quit a $5 million job as a CNBC talkmeister last month to cover Afghanistan for Fox News. But not everyone is cooperating
with his career change.
Bad enough that gun-toting Afghans have been blocking his way to Kandahar. Worse still, sources claim, he's been getting precious
little cooperation from U.S. military officials who apparently don't cotton to the left-leaning TV star.
Last week, Fox News chief Roger Ailes is said to have enlisted help from Marine officer-turned-pundit North, who just headed to
Bahrain also as a correspondent for Fox. Ailes, says the insider, asked North to put in a good word for his colleague with the brass.
According to the source, North sent word back that his military contacts had dryly responded: "Geraldo's paperwork is not in order,
and it won't be in order until the war is over."
On his broadcast last night, Geraldo himself called his new beat "an armed no-man's land … filled with murderous danger."
An amused Pentagon spokesman said he'd "received no reports of [Rivera] experiencing any trouble," but that he was welcome to file a complaint.
Hyperbole Isn't The Only Thing Flying
''Mariah-Mania'' In Kosovo
Mariah Carey
Pop diva Mariah Carey criss-crossed Kosovo by helicopter on Tuesday to bring some Christmas
cheer to U.S. peacekeeping troops.
The troops loved it, whooping and hollering with delight as she swooped in on a Chinook
helicopter for a performance to boost the morale of troops serving in the Balkans.
The soldiers greeted her as if they had not seen woman in months, especially a blonde pop
superstar bedecked in revealing military fatigues.
``This sure is Mariah-mania,'' said one soldier as they surged forward to glimpse of one of the
world's biggest recording stars, who has sold over 150 million records in a decade.
She did confess to Reuters: ``It was little bit unnerving at the beginning. The helicopter ride
flipped me out a little bit -- I ain't going to lie.''
Carey, wrapping up her whistlestop tour with a concert for the troops, got a rousing reception everywhere she went.
Like a trooper, she trudged through the mud, braved the icy cold and clambered on to a Humvee
jeep for group photos with the troops. The only pause came when her make-up artist quickly fixed
Carey's hair for yet another photo opportunity.
'Mariah-Mania' In Kosovo
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Official Groundbreaking Today
Clinton Presidential Library
Skip Rutherford, President of the Clinton Presidential Foundation, explains the music display during a media
tour of the Clinton Presidential Library Preview Exhibit in downtown Little Rock, December 4, 2001. Former
President Bill Clinton will attend the official groundbreaking for his presidential library on December 5.
Photo by Jeff Mitchell
Radio Interview From The Philippines
bobby fischer
Chess master-turned-madman Bobby Fischer has come out of seclusion to praise the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and rally for the destruction of America.
Fischer, the troubled prodigy who retired and went into hiding after winning the 1972 world chess championship against Russian
Boris Spassky, called a Philippine radio show just hours after 4,000 Americans died, saying, "I want to see the U.S. wiped out!"
In the last few years, Fischer has become buddies with station Bombo Radyo's shock-jock Pablo Mercado, to whom he ranted that the
World Trade Center collapse was, "wonderful news," reports Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.
"The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians for years," Fischer babbled. "Nobody gave a bleep. Now it is coming
back to the U.S. Bleep the U.S.!"
The federal government indicted Fischer in 1992, when he spat on U.S. sanctions against Yugoslavia to play a $3.5 million rematch
with Spassky there, which he won. Rather than face 10 years in prison, $250,000 in fines and the confiscation of his booty,
Fischer fled to Argentina and then to Hungary.
"He visits various parts of the world wearing disguises," Post chess columnist Andy Soltis tells PAGE SIX. "He thinks people are
trying to kill him. He thinks the CIA wants to kill him. He's a real nut."
"Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. image than me," he boasted. "I really believe this. When I won the world championship
in 1972, the United States was, you know, it was a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
"I turned all that around single-handedly, right? But I was useful then because it was the Cold War, right? But now . . . they
want to wipe me out, steal everything I have, put me in prison."
bobby fischer
Getting A 'Political' Appointment?
Bo Derek
The Bush administration has its own idea of culture. We hear the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
is about to appoint loyal Republican Bo Derek to a major post. If you don't know her qualifications,
you haven't seen her stirring work in "10" or "Bolero."
A rep for the curvy star said, "There will be a formal announcement out in about a week relating to her
future involvement with the Kennedy Center," but declined to give details. Hey, we're sure President
Kennedy would have liked Bo just fine.
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The Boss Does Windows
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen rocks, rolls and does windows — in other people's homes.
For more than 10 years, the Boss has been helping low-income New Jersey homeowners by quietly paying
for windows to be installed in their homes, according to IRS records obtained by Court TV's The Smoking Gun Web site.
Operating behind the scenes, the 52-year-old performer has made grants totaling $1,032,218. He does
this, the Web site reported, through one of his associates, Jim McDuffie, who handles requests out
of his home in Long Branch.
The tax records indicate that grants are mostly limited to $10,000 awards. In 2000, for example, 16
New Jersey families received grants totaling $119,728.
Word has slowly moved around the Garden State that Springsteen is very involved in this project. A
Long Branch woman applied for help after hearing that grants might be available. She soon received
$10,000, which she and her husband used for new windows and siding. The woman told the Web site that
she was unaware of the money's source until a contractor let it slip that Springsteen was behind the group.
Bruce Springsteen
Broadway-Bound?
Conan?
Conan O'Brien never seemed like a show-tunes fan but that isn't stopping the "Late Night" host from setting his sights on Broadway.
O'Brien has talked with producer Susan Stroman about starring in "The Music Man," which the pair saw Friday.
The show, currently starring Robert Sean Leonard, may have to close next month, if they cannot find
a good replacement, a source tells us. "They asked ['Will and Grace' star] Eric McCormack to come back,
but he didn't want to. Barry Manilow also turned it down."
A source close to Stroman says that O'Brien's chances of landing the role aren't that hot, though
he could theoretically make it onstage after wrapping his talk show at 6 p.m.
Conan Broadway-Bound?
Cad Update
Liz Hurley
British actress Liz Hurley reacted indignantly on Tuesday to a claim by millionaire former lover Steve Bing that he might not be
the father of her unborn baby.
``I'm deeply distraught by Stephen Bing publicly declaring that he hadn't been in an 'exclusive relationship' with me,'' she said in
a statement issued by Simian Films, the production company she co-owns with another former lover, Hugh Grant.
``This is the first I had heard of this and the implications are very painful, especially as I am shortly to give birth to his child.''
American film producer Bing, in line to inherit a property fortune variously estimated by British newspapers at
between $400 million and $3.5 billion, said in a statement on Monday that he was not taking his alleged paternity for granted.
Under Californian law he could be forced to pay more than a quarter of his annual income were his paternity proven.
Fellow Briton Grant has been her virtually constant companion since news of the pregnancy broke in November.
Hurley, 36, said in her statement that she and Bing had been very happy during their 18 months together until
she discovered she was pregnant.
``I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me,'' she said.
Bing has been widely quoted as saying he slept with her only twice and media reports say the two now converse
with each other either through the newspapers or their lawyers.
Liz Hurley & The Cad
New! Updated!
(20 Nov, 2001)
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, has provided another eye-opening set of charts!
A brief excerpt: " In January 2002, New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani will intimately know an experience and feeling that more and more of us are reluctantly facing: He'll join the ranks of the unemployed. Due to term limits Giuliani has not been able to seek re-election, after 8 years as one of New York's more popular mayors.
The question on most New Yorker's minds and lips is "What is Rudy going to do NOW?" Well, maybe The Stars can give us some clues.
"
Very interesting reading!
Family Responds
Charles Bronson
Reps for Charles Bronson, who used to pack that big magnum in his "Death Wish" movies, are
taking aim at tabloid reports that he's suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
According to the stories, the 80-year-old actor was diagnosed with the disease a year ago
and is being cared for by his third wife, Kim, 39.
"He doesn't have Alzheimer's," Bronson rep Lori Jonas tells us. "His health is fine."
The retired screen vigilante is spending the holidays with his family at his Vermont farm.
Bronson's Family Responds
He's Packing Heat & Has Bodyguards, Too
Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera, reporting for Fox News Channel in Afghanistan, says he's packing a gun - which
he will use to defend himself, if necessary, from hostile Taliban killers.
"If they're going to get us, it's going to be in a gun fight," Rivera told FNC anchor Laurie
Dhue from the village of Taloqan.
"It's not going to be a murder. It's not going to be a crime. It's going to be a gun fight.
"My brother, (producer) Craig and I . . . we refuse to be crime victims. We're not the victim types," Rivera said.
It's not known what kind of gun Rivera is carrying, or how or where he came into ownership of the weapon.
Rivera shipped out to Afghanistan with his brother Craig and cameraman Paul Butler last month shortly
after bolting CNBC for top-rated Fox News Channel.
"We're all in pretty good spirits," Rivera told Dhue. "We've been in various conflicts, and we keep
our chin up and keep focused on the fact that we want Osama bin Laden to end up either behind bars
or six feet under or maybe just one foot under - or maybe as just a pile of ash.
He's Packing Heat & Has Bodyguards, Too
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Saturday and Sunday 9 p. to 1 a. Pacific Standard at www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
Also, TONIGHT, Wednesday, 5 December, if you're in the Seattle area, Erin will be emceeing a
fundraiser for Democrats from local districts for the 2002 campaign season.
As a special treat, they will feature a Deep Fried Turkey cooked by Washington State Representative
John Lovick (and, as featured on KIRO's Dori Monson show).
For more details, visit Erin's homepage, http://www.erinistas.com/.
Say 'Hi' to Brian, the Webmaster, too.
And, while you're there, check out Brian's computer tips!
A Birthday Dance
Britney
Britney Spears celebrated her 20th birthday by getting a steamy private dance from a hunky male stripper - right
in front of her parents and 10-year-old sister, Jamie Lynn.
The belly-baring pop tart giggled and blushed her way through the eye-popping routine by stripper
Steven Peters - and her mother, Jamie, enjoyed it so much, she playfully squeezed the beefcake's biceps and buttocks.
Britney's bawdy birthday bash took place at Solaia, an Italian restaurant in Englewood, N.J.,
after her concert Sunday night at Continental Airlines Arena.
"Britney was blushing and had a big smile on her face the whole time," Peters told The Post.
"She told me, 'This is the best birthday present I've ever gotten!' "
Britney's Birthday Dance
Final Services
George Harrison
Mystery surrounded the last rites for Beatles guitarist George Harrison Tuesday as Hare
Krishna officials were tight-lipped about plans to immerse the late musician's ashes in India's sacred Ganges river.
Harrison, a long-time devotee of the Hindu sect, was closely attached to the holy city of
Varanasi, where the immersion of his ashes was expected to take place in a ritual symbolizing
the journey of his soul toward eternal consciousness.
Government officials in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh said the rites for the
youngest of the Beatles quartet who revolutionized pop music in the 1960s might already have taken place.
``All I can presume is perhaps they wanted it to be a private affair so they might have already
come and gone without informing anyone,'' state Home Secretary Naresh Dayal told Reuters.
In New Delhi, a Hare Krishna spokesman said he expected some of Harrison's ashes to be immersed
at Varanasi and possibly also at Allahabad, 130 km (80 miles) upriver where the holy Yamuna
joins the Ganges. But he had no other information.
Mystery Surrounding Final Services
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''For the Troops: An MTV/USO Special''
Kid Rock, J-Lo & Ja-Rule
Kid Rock is about to pay tribute to some real American Badasses.
The hard-rocking trailer-park patriot will join Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule in an overseas concert for U.S.
troops--part of a 90-minute special being produced by MTV and the United Service Organization.
For the Troops: An MTV/USO Special, hosted by TRL host Carson Daly, will air New Year's Day at 2 p.m. ET/PT.
The program will include the concert--which will have been staged at an undisclosed military base--as well
as behind-the-scenes reports, interviews with the troops and clips with J.Lo, Ja Rule and Kid Rock
rubbing elbows with the servicemen and women.
The special will no doubt give MTV a chance to do some hardcore flag-waving on New Year's Day. But the
concert special also may boost the USO's street credibility among the young troops, after the organization
named Vegas lounge lizard Wayne "Danke Schoen" Newton the Chairman of the USO's Celebrity Circle.
The USO has been in the troop morale-boosting business for more than 60 years, providing entertainment
ranging from Bob Hope's years of touring and TV specials to a recent Thanksgiving concert by rapper Coolio.
''For the Troops: An MTV/USO Special''
New Production Company
Tom Green
Canadian comic Tom Green has launched his own production company, Bob Green Films, which is developing several film and TV projects.
The shingle, named after Green's uncle, has formalized a three-year, first-look film and TV deal with Fox-based
Regency Enterprises, a producer of Green's recent comedy vehicle ``Freddy Got Fingered.''
Green is developing a pilot for a half-hour reality-based skateboarding show for the WB Network, which Regency
is producing. He is also writing the script for a pitch he set up at Regency. He will produce, direct and star
in an as-yet-untitled feature film as well.
Tom Green's New Production Company
Missing Diary Returned, Anonymously
Richard Burton
Diaries kept by Richard Burton during his first stormy marriage to Elizabeth Taylor have been returned
anonymously to the British Broadcasting Corp., eight months after they disappeared and were presumed stolen, the BBC said.
The diaries were among items lent to the BBC by Burton's widow, Sally, for the filming of a documentary
about the actor's life. After the items were returned to her in March, she discovered the diaries were not among them.
They had been kept in a locked cupboard at the BBC's west London television center. Police investigated
the disappearance as a theft, but never traced the diaries.
A package containing the missing diaries arrived at the BBC production offices on Monday.
Missing Richard Burton Diary Returned
Sounds Like Someone Has An Axe To Grind
Bernard On Dan
While Dan Rather covers the war in Afghanistan, he's under fire here at home as a Nixon-style autocrat
who rules CBS News with an iron fist.
That's the word from ex-CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg, who portrays Rather in a new book as a
warden, and CBS News as a prison in which "three-quarters of the producers and 100 percent of the vice
presidents [are] Dan's bitches."
Goldberg's stinging assessment of Rather is part of a new memoir Goldberg has written of his 28 years
with CBS News.
"Like Nixon, if you cross [Rather], if he perceives you as an enemy for a second, you're an enemy for
life," Goldberg said yesterday on Sean Hannity's WABC-AM radio show.
"The irony is," added Goldberg, "that Dan Rather - a great journalist who exposed Nixon for what he
was - sort of became Nixon."
Goldberg says Rather hasn't spoken to him since the day in 1996 when Goldberg published an infamous
op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal in which he first took up the theme of CBS News' alleged liberal biases.
Now Goldberg, who left CBS News last year, has expanded his thesis to a full-length book titled
"Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News," released in bookstores yesterday from Regnery Publishing.
Bernard Goldberg On Dan Rather
Regnery Publishing & Sean Hannity, fine examples of 'fair & balanced' (Sarcasm Alert).
Out Of Rehab
James Hetfield
Metallica lead singer and guitarist James Hetfield has left the rehabilitation facility where he had been receiving
treatment for alcohol abuse since July, a spokeswoman for the hard rock band said Tuesday.
The publicist confirmed a report appearing on the band's official Web site that Hetfield's recovery was going
well and he was feeling good about life.
Hetfield, 38, checked into an undisclosed rehab facility during the summer to undergo treatment for alcoholism
and other unspecified addictions, forcing the band to postpone recording sessions for its latest album.
Formed in 1981 by Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, Metallica has sold more than 80 million records
worldwide and has won six Grammy Awards.
Metallica's James Hetfield Out Of Rehab
Early Morning Raid In Miami
OJ
Law enforcement agents searched the home of ex-football star O.J. Simpson in a Miami suburb on Tuesday, arriving before dawn to
comb through the house in what the FBI said was an investigation related to a suspected ecstasy ring.
Simpson was not arrested or named in an indictment in the case. He was spotted at the house by local media as the agents arrived
at his home in the south Miami suburb of Kendall where he moved a year ago. He later left the house in his black sport utility vehicle.
The FBI said the search by the FBI, Miami police and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, which included sniffer
dogs, was related to a suspected drug ring that allegedly brought ecstasy pills from Europe into Miami's club scene. Eleven
people were indicted in the case on Tuesday.
Judy Orihuela, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Miami office, said she could give no details of why Simpson's house was searched
or what agents were looking for. ``He's not named in the indictment and he's not been arrested,'' she said.
Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, said Simpson was cooperating fully with investigators and that he had advised Simpson not
to comment publicly. He said Simpson did not have any ecstasy pills or other illegal drugs and that the search had turned
up ``nothing, nothing of any consequence.''
Early Morning For OJ
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"Boondocks" (9 Oct 01)
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
