BartCop Entertainment Archives - Wednesday, 8 December, 2004

Stupid Question of the Week

What will Dubya be doing on 06/06/06?

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Gallery of the Week

How come you didn't think of The Infinite Cat Project?

Quiz of the Week

Belief-o-Matic asks 20 questions about your spiritual beliefs, then tells you what religion you seem to belong to. I turned out to be either a Unitarian Universalist, a Liberal Quaker, a Neo-Pagan, or a Mahayana Buddhist.

Don't Take My Word For It

"When the Mongol hordes sacked Baghdad in 1258, they fanned out through the prestigious city demolishing buildings, burning neighbourhoods, and mercilessly massacring men, women, and children. The waters of the Tigris ran red with human blood, many libraries perished, water resources trashed, irreplaceable cultural treasures were lost.

"All achieved without an airforce. While the scale of the Mongolian slaughter is the stuff of legend, it is time to ask the obvious follow up have the excesses of Mongols been surpassed by those of the Marines?"

- Richard Neville: The Bad Santa -

"Why would our young men and women go into battle saying, 'Lets kill 'em all?' Why would an American helicopter crew gun down women and children trying to escape Falluja, who were crossing a river in broad daylight? Why would one of our officers gun down wounded civilians in a mosque?"

- Sam Hamod: a former advisor to the State Department on Islam and the Middle East -

"In stunning revelations set to rock the vote from Tallahassee to Capitol Hill - and perhaps even a bit further up Pennsylvania Avenue - a Florida computer programmer has now made remarkable claims in a detailed sworn affidavit. The programmer claims that he designed and built a 'vote rigging' software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional District.

- The BRAD BLOG -

"A plurality of likely voters say that longtime Christmas fixture Santa Claus is a Democrat, a new Zogby International poll reveals. The same survey found voters even more sure of the political leanings of two other Christmas icons: Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch are likely Republicans."

- Santa Claus 'a Democrat', Ebenezer Scrooge, Grinch 'Republicans', New Zogby Poll Finds -

"The coquettes whittled to bottom and bra, then peeled to a g-string and pasties while dancing, really dancing, with charm, humor and grace. Sexy grace. Allure. It was like a drug and I wanted to smoke some. No crotch thrusting. No flicking tongues. It wasn't Fuck Me. It wasn't I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar. It was I Enjoy Being A Girl."

- Xanadu Xero: A respite from holiday shopping: Christmas strippers -

"Early in 2002, the Taliban was split. About 50 percent of the Taliban leadership hated Osama bin Laden and wanted him out. We could have worked with them. But we went ahead and treated the Taliban as one entity. The Taliban has survived. Al Queda has survived. We wanted to eliminate crazy people who want to fly planes into buildings. But instead we dehumanized everyone in Afghanistan and Iraq."

- Seymour Hersh -

"The aim of the US assault is to make Fallujah a model to the rest of Iraq of what will happen to those thinking on similar lines. It is the leading thrust of an orgy of killing intended to crush and drive underground every voice of dissent and ensure that elections this coming January will throw up a weak-willed, pro-US toady regime. The American military is rumored to be planning similar attacks on scores of other Iraqi cities and towns.

"Not a single major voice has been raised in the American media against the ongoing destruction of Fallujah. While much of the world recognizes something dreadful has occurred, the US press does not even bat an eyelash over the organized leveling of a city of 300,000 people. In none of the US media commentaries is there a single phrase of unease about the moral, or legal, questions involved in the attack on Fallujah. None have dared say it in as many words that the American military operation in the city is an unlawful act of aggression in an equally illegal, criminal, aggressive war.

"The United States went into Afghanistan to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden. They killed 10,000 innocent Afghans but could not find their man. They went into Iraq to discover and eliminate Saddam's WMDs. They killed tens of thousands of Iraqis but found no WMD. They laid siege to the city of Fallujah to kill or capture Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. The city and its inhabitants have been blown to smithereens but there is no Zarqawi. Is it not only too convenient? Next when they want to attack Pakistan, or Iran, they simply have to say that Bin Laden is taking refuge there. Just like the next Iraqi city awaiting the fate of Fallujah will be the latest refuge of Zarqawi; the WMDs too could next fly to Syria or may be even Saudi Arabia. Is one imagining things here? Or is it that the US imperialism is indeed now riding full time on the back of gargantuan lies?

"After granting George Bush a carte blanche to do what he likes the American citizens, of course, continue their daily lives oblivious to what is being done in their name. Between their work places and the nearest fast food joints, they just do not have enough time to check back on the activities of the man who is playing the Terminator in the name of God and in their name."

- Anwaar Hussain: I Am Become Death - The Destroyer Of The Worlds (mandatory reading) -

"One hapless doctor, Hakim Mirzoev, says he expected the Americans to surround the city, fire a few shots, and declare victory. He didn't realize that a greater PSYOPS scheme was in the making, a plan to flatten Falluja under boot and mortar so that the City of Mosques could be rebuilt by Christian Soldiers into a Model City - a Pasadena by the Euphrates. With this world-historical Crusade in mind, Falluja was crushed, thousands were killed and wounded, hundreds of thousands displaced, so that America could perceive itself great in the gaze of the world."

- Greg Moses: Ask Not Who Bankrolled Fallujah Attacks: War Tax Resisters Opt Out -

"Ordinary people in the United States have been manipulated into imagining they are a people under siege whose sole refuge and protector is their government. If it isn't the Communists, it's al Qaeda. If it isn't Cuba, its Nicaragua. As a result, the most powerful nation in the world is peopled by a terrified citizenry jumping at shadows. A people bonded to the state not by social services, or public health care, or employment guarantees, but by fear.

"This synthetically manufactured fear is used to gain public sanction for further acts of aggression. And so it goes, building into a spiral of self-fulfilling hysteria, now formally calibrated by the U.S governments Amazing Technicolored Terror Alerts: fuchsia, turquoise, salmon pink."

- Arundhati Roy: People vs. Empire - Only global resistance from below can counter repressive states -

"[W]hen Bradley asked Dylan about Rolling Stone magazine's recent selection of (surprise) Like a Rolling Stone as the number one song of all time, Dylan was characteristically unimpressed: 'Well, the lists, they change names pretty frequently ... I don't really pay much attention to that.' Follow-up question that would be asked by ANY SENTIENT INDIVIDUAL at that moment: So, Mr. Dylan, what do you think is the greatest song of all time? Had the focus shifted for a moment off himself and his status as a legend, Dylan might have opened up a little, smiled, maybe even picked up a guitar and sung a Woody Guthrie song or something. But Bradley neglected to ask his subject anything about music, current events, pop culture or religion."

- Dana Stevens: Dylan on 60 Minutes: It's Alright Ma, I'm only fulfilling my contractual obligations. -

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human

history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

- Robert F. Kennedy -

"In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American firms from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first get U.S. government approval.

"The restriction, condemned by critics as a violation of the 1st Amendment, means that books and other works banned by some totalitarian regimes cannot be published freely in the United States, a country that prides itself as the international beacon of free expression."

- Scott Martelle: Will voices of dissent still be heard? U.S. firms now need OK to publish authors from nations under sanction -

"Harnessing the electrical echoes of thought, researchers have developed a way for people to control a computer cursor simply by thinking about it.

"The device, which so far has been tested successfully on four people, does not require implants, surgery or any other invasive medical procedure, the researchers reported Monday. Previous efforts required electrodes wired directly into brain cells."

- Robert Lee Hotz: Device for the Paralyzed Turns Thinking to Doing -

"I think therefore I spam."

- René Descartes (before the horse) -

"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson because it is so easy to do."

- our food supply -

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

- George Bernard Shaw -

"To an unprecedented degree, the United States and its allies have turned to private companies to fill tens of thousands of jobs once performed only by soldiers, from prison interrogators to bodyguards for high-ranking officials. Several of these companies have even engaged in firefights as part of their work. To Iraqis, the corporate guards are often indistinguishable from U.S. troops, with whom they often cooperate. Yet there is one key difference between the contract soldiers and U.S. troops: With pressure to quickly fill thousands of jobs, many companies have recruited former police officers and soldiers who engaged in human rights violations -- including torture and illicit killings -- for regimes such as apartheid South Africa, Augusto Pinochet's Chile, and Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. Some of these firms perform only cursory pre-employment screening, if any -- making it easy for those with questionable backgrounds to slip through unnoticed."

- Barry Yeoman: Dirty Warriors - How South African hit men, Serbian paramilitaries, and other human rights violators became guns for hire for military contractors in Iraq -

"Condi is a bulldog like House Majority Leader, Tom Delay. She and Tom know that facts and truths are two things that have very different meanings. Yeah, Condi, like Tom, knows that the real truth can only harm America, and so she tells her version of the truth, or speaks her version of facts. Colin never understood that to be a team player you had to yield to the Bush line. Condi, however, knows when to lay spread eagle and force some low-level operative to admit to failure."

- Kathleen Kuntly: Condi Replaces Colin -

"On patrol in Taliban-infested sectors of Afghanistan's Paktia province, Pat Tillman's 'Black Sheep' platoon, formally known as 2nd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, became bogged down because of a broken Humvee. Lt. David Uthlaut, the platoon leader, recommended that his unit stay together, deliver the truck to a nearby road, then complete his mission. He was overruled by a superior officer monitoring his operations from distant Bagram, near Kabul, who ordered Uthlaut to split his platoon, with one section taking care of the Humvee and the other proceeding to a village, where the platoon was to search for enemy guerrillas.

"Steep terrain and high canyon walls prevented the two platoon sections from communicating with each other at crucial moments. When one section unexpectedly changed its route and ran into an apparent Taliban ambush while trapped in a deep canyon, the other section from a nearby ridge began firing in support at the ambushers. As the ambushed group broke free from the canyon, machine guns blazing, one heavily armed vehicle mistook an allied Afghan militiaman for the enemy and poured hundreds of rounds at positions occupied by fellow Rangers, killing Pat Tillman and the Afghan."

- Steve Coll: Army glossed over Tillman's ill-fated mission - Account of Ranger's death was inflated, kept from family -

"With an endless war against an enemy noun that can never be defeated; the sublimation of rebellious popular culture to the corporate prole-wheel of profit, co-opting any revolutionary spirit and transferring it into a lust for baggier pants or thinner thighs or shinier lipstick; the self-censorship of free speech, when it's not herded into a zone to protect our masters from hearing its voice; a media apparatus that bows to the needs of the state and commerce and ignores the people; and a sham two-party system that pretends disagreement on certain issues for public entertainment and distraction, while they each receive cash infusions from the same multi-national sources, America has entered a reasonable facsimile of Orwell's Oceania, but, like any respectable government project, twenty years overdue. We have only the option of scribbling in our electronic diaries for the benefit of an unknown future, committing Thoughtcrime until the knock at the door in the middle of the night."

- RS Janes -

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge - even to ourselves - that we've been so credulous."

- Carl Sagan -

"The problem is not materialism as such. Rather, it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences."

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama -

"Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter."

- Bono -

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others."

- Robert Louis Stevenson -

"I declare that the overcoming of clinging to the impurities of the world is possible for a person who knows and sees but not for a person who does not know or see. In the person who knows and sees, the dustless and stainless Eye of Truth arises. Seeing the truth, he sees things as they are. Seeing the truth, the eye is born, knowledge is born, wisdom is born, science is born, and light is born."

- Samyutta Nikaya -

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

- Dr. Seuss -

"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."

- Euripides -

"I drop half a milliliter of water into a plastic test tube and mash a piece of a leaf inside. As the water tints green, I notice that my hands are shaking. I haven't slept for two days, and the Marxist guerrillas have this town encircled. But what's really making me nervous is the green liquid in the tube.

"Over the past three years, rumors of a new strain of coca have circulated in the Colombian military. The new plant, samples of which are spread out on this table, goes by different names: supercoca, la millonaria. Here in the southern region it's known as Boliviana negra. The most impressive characteristic is not that it produces more leaves - though it does - but that it is resistant to glyphosate. The herbicide, known by its brand name, Roundup, is the key ingredient in the US-financed, billion-dollar aerial coca fumigation campaign that is a cornerstone of America's war on drugs.

"One possible explanation: The farmers of the region may have used selective breeding to develop a hardier strain of coca. If a plant happened to demonstrate herbicide resistance, it would be more widely cultivated, and clippings would be either sold or, in many cases, given away or even stolen by other farmers. Such a peer-to-peer network could, over time, result in a coca crop that can withstand large-scale aerial spraying campaigns."

- Joshua Davis: The Mystery of the Coca Plant That Wouldn't Die - The war on Colombia's drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature - or a genetically modified secret weapon? -

"The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over. But, damn it, it can surely never be right that the stupid should rule over the clever!"

- Henrik Ibsen -

"Seeking conclusions is a modern sickness. Rather, find meaning in the process of becoming."

- The Rev. Koshin Ogui: bishop of the Buddhist Churches of America -

"If the richest nation in the history of the world is populated by millions of Bible-believing Christians, then how come issues of poverty and economic justice were barely mentioned this past election season?

"There are an estimated 35 million poor people in America, including nearly 13 million children. The poverty rate has increased steadily over the past three years, most dramatically among children. But not a peep about this from either Bush or Kerry.

"A Bible-believing America? Yeah, and I'm the next pope."

- Sean Gonsalves: On their own terms - Using scripture to engage Bible-believers on moral values -

"As we change ourselves from the inside out, we send ripples of inspiration and healing out into the world. By joining together in groups to support each other in this, those ripples become waves which powerfully help to build a brighter future for us all."

- Building a Brighter Future -

"Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing, support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the Gulf states. Thus, when American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy."

- US Defense Department report by the Defense Science Board -

"The Wal-Mart Corporation has marketed itself as a patriotic buyer of U.S. goods, with Bring it Home to the USA banners and the slogan, "We Buy American, Whenever We Can." These claims are about as honest as the company's extolling of its 'worker-friendly' policies in its corporate image advertising campaign. [Benjamin] Edwards's art shows, 'We Buy American Whenever We Can't Buy Chinese' might be a more appropriate slogan for the megastore's business model.

"Edwards's experiment took him to eight Wal-Mart stores in one day, where he randomly picked up products and recorded their countries of manufacturing origin. Forty-six percent of his day's total comes from China; only 19 percent from the United States. Wal-Mart's slogans supporting American manufacturing ring hollow when paired with Edwards's results, and that if Wal-Mart were an independent nation, it would rank as China's eighth largest trading partner, before Australia and Russia."

- John Podesta: American Progress Action Fund -

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

- Bertrand Russell -

"No one needs to watch another brain tumor patient engage in a David-and-Goliath legal battle to defend her last-ditch drug of choice."

- L.A. Times Editorial: A Kinder Pot Policy -

"What I find is that people are mad about our policies. They're not necessarily mad at us. And therefore, as policies are successful, attitudes can be changed."

- Colin Powell in an interview with P.J. O'Roarke -

"When you take your case to Washington, D.C., you're taking it to the criminal who's responsible; it's like running from the wolf to the fox. They're all in cahoots together. They all work political chicanery and make you look like a chump before the eyes of the world. Here you are walking around in America, getting ready to be drafted and sent abroad, like a tin soldier, and when you get over there, people ask you what are you fighting for, and you have to stick your tongue in your cheek. No, take Uncle Sam to court, take him before the world.

- Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet, April 3, 1964 -

"Keep an open mind, sure - but not so open that your brains fall out."

- M.D and Steven Novella: Alien Abductions and Coffee Enemas or the problem with being open-minded -

Everything Else

You'll be so proud of your country when you see these pictures from Fallujah.

Here's a clip from the 70s children's TV show Rainbow that teaches kids how to play with their friend's balls.

A superb collection of links to off-beat music videos from the likes of Black Flag, Public Image Ltd., and The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots.

Peter Jackson is remaking King Kong starring Jack Black, who is putting together a video diary of the shoot.

For your historical collection, the World's Earliest Television Recordings.

Surely you've got something better to do than listen to Jingle Bells in Yiddish.

I KNOW you've got something better to do than play Reflex, the most addicting game of the week.

Turn off your radio and check out some good old-fashioned relevant folk songs by Papa Dish, like The Last Voyage of the Condoleezza Rice, The Ballad of John Ashcroft, and Connect the Dots.

Contact George W. Bush - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact the Freemasons - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact Skull and Bones - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact the Carlyle Group - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact the Illuminati - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact Satan - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact both houses of Congress - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact the Supreme Court - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact Dick Cheney - vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Contact Halliburton - vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Contact Bechtel - vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Contact Saddam Hussein - vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Contact Osama bin Laden - thetwins@whitehouse.gov

Contact Jeb Bush - jeb.bush@myflorida.com

Contact Fidel Castro - jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Contact Kim Jong Il - eng-info@kcna.co.jp
Contact Jacques Chirac - france-presse@un.int
Contact the Pope - accreditamenti@pressva.va
Contact God - president@whitehouse.gov

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'TBH Politoons'

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Complete List of Grammy Nominations

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from Bruce

THE dollar has been the leading international currency for as long as most people can remember. But its dominant role can no longer be taken for granted. If America keeps on spending and borrowing at its present pace, the dollar will eventually lose its mighty status in international finance. And that would hurt: the privilege of being able to print the world's reserve currency, a privilege which is now at risk, allows America to borrow cheaply, and thus to spend much more than it earns, on far better terms than are available to others. Imagine you could write cheques that were accepted as payment but never cashed. That is what it amounts to. If you had been granted that ability, you might take care to hang on to it. America is taking no such care, and may come to regret it.

The Disappearing Dollar

Gathered together, [the desert fathers] are complaining about one of the absent monks, who has harmed the community with his actions. Finally, the eldest of the group walks off, only to return with a huge sack on his back, a tiny one before him. What are you doing?, they ask the elder. These are my sins, he says, pointing to his back. But these are the sins of my brother, which I keep ever before me, where I can see them.

That I Would Be Good

Since Election Day, there has been a lot of predictable moaning and groaning about the future of the Democratic Party. Particularly predictable are the suggestions that we need to be more like Republicans in order to win. Democrats need to learn by our previous mistakes - we have tried being "Republican-lite" and it does not work. It is a mistake to run away from the things we believe and I think we can win in the so-called Republican states by being real Democrats.

Howard Dean: 'The Future of the Democratic Party'

Privatizing Social Security - replacing the current system, in whole or in part, with personal investment accounts - won't do anything to strengthen the system's finances. If anything, it will make things worse. Nonetheless, the politics of privatization depend crucially on convincing the public that the system is in imminent danger of collapse, that we must destroy Social Security in order to save it.

Paul Krugman: 'Inventing a Social Security Crisis'

The primary social issue discussed in the Bible � is not sexual morality but God's call for economic justice in relation to the poor.

Sean Gonsalves: 'Charity is not enough'

A Fun Site: Utterly Outrageous Recipes

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Purple Gene Reviews

'I Shot Andy Warhol'

Purple Genes' review of "I Shot Andy Warhol" (1996) directed by Mary Harron:

I probably wouldn't have bothered to watch this "Indie-ish" - "Feminist - ish" - First time Flick for Mary Harron (director) but.....I used to love Andy Warhols' "Bananas" and the name "Pop Art" and the "Velvet Underground & Nico" and ...Lou Reed..."The Colored Girls Go...doo..doo doo..doo ..doo ..doo doo...."....and, you know, that whole idea of fifteen minutes of FAME.....

So.........I made the move and watched Lili Tayor (Lisa in "6 Feet Under" and JoJo in "Mystic Pizza") take on the role of Valerie Solanis - a creepy little crumb of a creature who had a big mouth and was basically UNBALANCED!!!!! She had a screenplay and was trying hard to get IN with Andys' Cliche - the androgenous art scene of the 60s in Manhatten.......This whole movie is about this whacked out WAIF who got pissed at Warhol for snubbing her.....This is like making a movie about "Squeaky Fromm" ..remember her trying to shoot Gerald Ford?????

Anyway the whole idea of making a movie about Valerie Solanis kept creeping up as I watched Lili Taylor inhabit this role.....Valerie was a semi-literate NUt and wrote something called the SCUM Manifesto (SCUM meaning...Society for Cutting Up Men)..If you have to see this movie - maybe because Lili Taylor actually does a great job - Look out for the character called Viva - she is a transexual played by Stephen Dorff and he is worth the price of the mini ticket!!!!!!

Well.........Valerie gets so steamed at that darn Andy Warhol that she gets a gun and goes up and shoots him...he doesn't die right away ...but he gets terminally wounded.

There goes the whole Art Scene....Darn.....well Valerie gets put away and after she's let out of prison she shrivels into insane anonimity....and dies.....

What's the point of this movie...besides the historical significance...It could have been a documentary.....I guess it explores the mind of a derranged and damaged woman who happened to make the headlines for shooting an Art Icon....other than that...she was just another Bag Lady with a manifesto!!!!!!! If you need to see all of Lili Taylors movies....then go ahead and watch this one!

Purple Gene gives "I Shot Andy Warhol" 5 faded welfare coupons out of 10 for romanticising this sad and otherwise insignificant woman!

Purple Gene

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

RAPTURE ON HOLD

RIGHT WING WHACKOS HATE TITS

WING NUT GETS WHACKED

NEIL DOWN

GIRLIE-MAN GETS TUFF

GEORGE W HOOVER

WITH GOD ON OUR FASCIST SIDE

CHIMP BOY AND ANDY

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Overcast & cold, more rain ahead.

Complete List of Grammy Nominations

Tonight, Wednesday:

CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'King Of Queens', then a FRESH 'Center Of The Universe', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The 3rd One'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 11/9/04) are Salma Hayek, CART auto racing champion Sebastien Bourdais, and Jimmy Eat World.
On a RERUN 'Craiggers' (from 10/12/04) with guest host David Alan Grier are Kyra Sedgwick, Paul Johanssen, and Richard Marx.

NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'special' - 'A Clay Aiken Christmas', followed by a FRESH 'West Wing' (Penn & Teller guest), then a FRESH 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Catherine Zeta-Jones, John C. Reilly, Travis Tritt, and John Mellencamp.
On a RERUN Conan (from 7/21/04) are Benjamin Bratt, Isaac Mizrahi, and Modest Mouse.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Tony Danza, Nia Long, and G and B.

ABC begins the night with a FRESH 'Lost', followed by a FRESH 'special' 'Barbara Walters Presents The 10 Most Fascinating People Of 2004', then a FRESH 'Wife Swap'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Heidi Klum, Ryan Reynolds, and Zhen Huan Yu.

The WB offers a 2-hour RERUN 'Smallville'.

Faux has a FRESH 'special' - 'Billboard Music Awards'.

UPN has a FRESH 'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN 'Kevin Hill'.

A&E has 'American Justice', another 'American Justice', 'Secret Life Of A Serial Killer', and 'Biography' (Gene Simmons).

AMC offers the movie 'The Money Pit', followed by the movie 'Addams Family Values', then 'FilmFakers', followed by the movie 'Addams Family Values', again.

BBC -
[2pm]    'As Time Goes By' - Episode 6;
[2:40pm]    'Are You Being Served?' - By Appointment;
[3:20pm]    'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 7;
[4pm]    'The Saint' - The Double Take;
[5pm]    'The Weakest Link' - Episode 58;
[6pm]    'BBC World News';
[6:30pm]    'Cash in the Attic' - Boyle;
[7pm]    'My Hero' - Big;
[7:40pm]    'Absolutely Fabulous' - Door Handle;
[8:20pm]    'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[9pm]    'Kumars at No. 42' - Christmas Special;
[9:40pm]    'Kumars at No. 42' - Donny Osmond;
[10:20pm]    'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[11pm]    'My Family' - Christmas Special: Ding Dong Merrily;
[11:40pm]    'Kumars at No. 42' - Christmas Special;
[12:20am]    'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[1am]    'My Hero' - Big;
[1:40am]    'Absolutely Fabulous' - Door Handle;
[2:20am]    'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[3am]    'My Family' - Christmas Special: Ding Dong Merrily;
[3:40am]    'Kumars at No. 42' - Christmas Special;
[4:20am]    'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[5am]    'The Office' - Episode 6;
[5:40am]    'Look Around You' - Maths;
[6am]    'BBC World News'    (ALL TIMES EST)

Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Kathy Griffin: The D-List', 'Project Runway', and another 'Project Runway'.

Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Reno 911!', 'South Park', followed by a FRESH 'South Park', then a FRESH 'Drawn Together'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Seth Mnookin.

History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Boys' Toys', and another 'Boys' Toys'.

IFC -

[6AM]    'Southie' (1998);
[8AM]    'God Said, "Ha!"' (1998);
[9:30AM]    'At The Angelika #91' (2004);
[10AM]    'The Cup' (1999);
[11:45AM]    'Passing Stones' (2001);
[1:30PM]    'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[2:30PM]    'God Said, "Ha!"' (1998);
[4PM]    'Ugetsu' (1953);
[5:45PM]    'The Climb' (1998);
[7:30PM]    'American Buffalo' (1996);
[9PM]    'Thirteen Conversations About One Thing' (2001);
[11PM]    'Sunshine State' (2002);
[1:30AM]    'Thirteen Conversations About One Thing' (2001);
[3:30AM]    'Wonderland' (1997);
[5:30AM]    'At The Angelika #91' (2004)    (ALL TIMES EST)

SciFi has 'Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction?', followed by a FRESH 'Proof Positive Evidence Of The Paranormal', then a FRESH 'Ghost Hunters', 'Scare Tactics', and another 'Scare Tactics'.

Sundance -
[6:50AM]    'Ocularist' (Feature);
[7AM]    'At Five in the Afternoon' (Feature);
[8:45AM]    'American Waitress: New Mexico' (Feature);
[10AM]    'Assassination Tango' (Feature);
[12PM]    'Holi-days' (Documentary);
[12:50PM]    'Ocularist' (Feature);
[1PM]    'The Man on the Train' (Feature);
[2:35PM]    'Borstal Boy' (Feature);
[4:10PM]    'Gravel' (Short);
[4:30PM]    'Alchemy' (Feature);
[6:05PM]    'American Waitress: New Mexico' (Feature);
[7:15PM]    'At Five in the Afternoon' (Feature);
[9PM]    'Assassination Tango' (Feature);
[11PM]    'The First Amendment Project: Fox vs. Franken' (Original Production);
[11:30PM]    'The First Amendment Project: Poetic License' (Original Production);
[12AM]    'Another Heaven' (Feature);
[2:15AM]    'el Octavo dia La Creacion' (Short);
[2:30AM]    'Hush!' (Feature);
[4:50AM]    'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not' (Short);
[5:30AM]    'The Man on the Train' (Feature)    (ALL TIMES EST)

TCM celebrates Betty Hutton most of the night.
[6:15am]    'The Vanishing Virginian' (1942);
[8am]    'Gaslight' (1944);
[10am]    'Between Two Worlds' (1944);
[12pm]    'Edward, My Son' (1949);
[2pm]    'One Minute to Zero' (1952);
[4pm]    'The Power And The Prize' (1956);
[6pm]    'The Wreck Of The Mary Deare' (1959);
[8pm]    'Annie Get Your Gun' (1950);
[10pm]    'Private Screenings: Betty Hutton' (2000);
[11pm]    'Annie Get Your Gun' (1950);
[1am]    'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek' (1944);
[3am]    'The Perils Of Pauline' (1947);
[4:45am]    'Shadow Of Doubt' (1935).    (ALL TIMES EST)

Thursday - 12/09

TCM:
[6am]    'The Decks Ran Red' (1958);
[7:30am]    'Night Unto Night' (1949);
[9am]    'Our Vines Have Tender Grapes' (1945);
[11am]    'Five Came Back' (1939);
[12:30pm]    'Parachute Jumper' (1933);
[2pm]    'Our Modern Maidens' (1929) SILENT ;
[3:30pm]    'The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers' (1946);
[5:30pm]    'Lust For Life' (1956);
[8pm]    'Peyton Place' (1957);
[11pm]    'Picnic' (1955);
[1am]    'Splendor In The Grass' (1961);
[3:15am]    'All That Heaven Allows' (1955);
[5am]    'Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To' (1990)    (ALL TIMES EST)

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Waxwork models of, from left to right: Samuel L Jackson, Hugh Grant and Graham Norton dressed as shepherds, David and Victoria Beckham as Joseph and Mary, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, The Duke of Edinburgh and US resident George Bush as the Three Wise Men and Kylie Minogue as the Angel, top, are displayed as part of the Madame Tussaud's Celebrity Nativity scene at the tourist attraction in London, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004.
Photo by Ian West

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New Host Of 'Craiggers'

Craig Ferguson

Scottish actor Craig Ferguson, who played the boss for many years on "The Drew Carey Show," will be the new host of CBS' "Late Late Show."

A formal announcement was expected Tuesday, according to two executives close to CBS who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Ferguson passed through a gauntlet of on-air tryouts set up by Worldwide Pants, David Letterman's production company. He was one of four finalists with actor Michael Ian Black, comedian D.L. Hughley and MTV "Total Request Live" host Damien Fahey.

Craig Ferguson

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Helps Launch Search Engine

Bill Clinton

Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.

"I hope you all make lots of money," Clinton told executives at the launch of Accoona Corp., which donated an undisclosed amount to the William J. Clinton Foundation.

Accoona takes its name from the Swahili phrase, "accoona matata," for "no worries," popularized by Disney's film, "The Lion King."

Bill Clinton

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Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordon (C) embraces Sharihan Abel-Rahman (L) of Palestine and Malvina Goldfeld of Israel following her address to an estimated 10,000 women participating in the California Governor's Conference on Women and Families in Long Beach, California December 7, 2004.
Photo by Jim Ruymen

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Returns to Stage

Tommy Chong

Spending nine months in jail for conspiring to sell bongs on the Internet didn't scare Tommy Chong straight.

One half of the ne'er-do-well, dope-smoking duo Cheech & Chong, the 66-year-old Chong joins the Off-Broadway show "The Marijuana-Logues" on Tuesday with new pot jokes.

"The Marijuana-Logues" features Chong at New York's Actors Playhouse through Dec. 19 and premieres on the West Coast in February.

Tommy Chong

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'Offensive' Spiked Column Surfaces

James Goldsborough

The column that led to James Goldsborough departure after 12 years as a liberal voice opposite the San Diego (Calif.) Union-Tribune's Republican-leaning editorial page recounts a quiet dinner last summer spent discussing the volatile topics of the Middle East and the U.S. presidential election.

Over "a good bottle of Santa Ynez cabernet," Goldsborough wrote, he and a friend of 30 years, Benjamin J. Cohen, discussed how Jews would vote in the upcoming U.S. election.

The column was posted today on the Web site of KPBS, San Diego's public radio station. The full text is available here.

James Goldsborough

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99.8% Of Content Complaints

'Activists'

In an appearance before Congress in February, when the controversy over Janet Jackson's Super Bowl moment was at its height, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell laid some startling statistics on U.S. senators.

The number of indecency complaints had soared dramatically to more than 240,000 in the previous year, Powell said. The figure was up from roughly 14,000 in 2002, and from fewer than 350 in each of the two previous years. There was, Powell said, "a dramatic rise in public concern and outrage about what is being broadcast into their homes."

What Powell did not reveal-apparently because he was unaware-was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003- 99.8 percent -were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.

'Activists'

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Trail Badly (Again)

Reporters

Once again, newspaper reporters score poorly in the annual Gallup Poll, released today, on honesty and ethical standards in various professions, as judged by the American public. They rank even lower than bankers, auto mechanics, elected officials, and nursing-home operators.

To put this in perspective: Newspaper reporters are even less respected than their TV counterparts.

Somehow, however, they top lawyers, car salesmen, and ad directors. And they also edge business executives and congressmen.

Nurses top the list as most honest and ethical.

Reporters

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Two chef's check a replica of the opera house 'La Scala made with 70kg of white chocolate in a window display the food emporium Peck in Milan, December 7, 2004. The opera house will officially reopen today with a performances of Salieri's 'Europa Riconsciuta, the first opera staged at La Scala when it opened in 1778.
Photo by Stefano Rellandini

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Hospital News

Mary Travers

Mary Travers, 67, of Peter, Paul and Mary is undergoing chemotherapy for a form of leukemia, but a full remission is expected within a few months, her publicist, Ken Sunshine, said Tuesday.

"Mary looks forward to touring again with the trio soon, and is grateful for the well wishes that have come to her from all over the world," the statement said. No other details were released.

Mary Travers

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Cancels European Tour

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull has canceled a European tour after collapsing before a show in Italy last week, her management said Tuesday. A spokesman said doctors told the singer that she has chronic exhaustion and ordered her to rest for three months.

Faithfull, 57, had been due to perform in cities including London; Glasgow, Scotland; Dublin, Ireland; Barcelona, Spain; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Vienna, Austria. She collapsed shortly before she was to go onstage in Milan last Wednesday.

Marianne Faithfull

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Charges Dismissed

Robin Givens

Charges were dismissed for the second time against actress Robin Givens, who was ticketed for running over an elderly pedestrian's leg.

County Court Judge Steven Leifman dismissed the case on Monday because the Miami police officers who were present in court did not witness the accident and could not testify to the cause of the accident. Also, a civilian witness did not appear in court.

Givens was ticketed for failing to use due care with a pedestrian in the crosswalk, an offense carrying a fine of less than $70. Charges were first dropped in September when the officers didn't come to court. The state attorney's office refiled the case, but no one from the office appeared in court Monday.

Robin Givens

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A child swings a broom stick at a swarm of locusts as they make their way through the city of Merida, in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. At least four large locust swarms passed through Merida causing alarm with residents and putting agriculture authorities on alert.
Photo by Jose Acosta

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5-Year Extension

The Young and the Restless

"The Young and the Restless" is staying on CBS for another five years. The network has secured a five-year extension of broadcast rights to the top-rated daytime drama, which is in its 32nd season on CBS. The show, which received the 2004 Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding daytime drama, averages more than 5 million viewers a day.

The Young and the Restless

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To Reunite

Motley Crue

The original members of 1980s glam metal band Motley Crue, which made hard living and wild sexcapades a centerpiece of their music and their lives, on Monday announced a world reunion tour.

With support from cable music television network VH1, the band - vocalist Vince Neil, drummer Tommy Lee, guitarist Mick Mars and bass player Nikki Sixx - plan a world tour beginning in February in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The band will hit more than 60 cities in North America during two legs and play several festivals in Europe before wrapping up the tour in southeast Asia and Australia.

Motley Crue

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Fertility Symbol or Political Poster?

Massa Marittima

At first glance, the Massa Marittima mural looks fairly similar to dozens of other medieval frescoes dotted across Tuscany.

But look closely at the spidery tree that dominates the center of the painting and you notice something peculiar. Its branches are covered in penises.

There are 25 of them in all, of different shapes and sizes, complete with testicles. They hang from the limbs of the tree like leaves fluttering in the breeze.

According to a British-based expert, it is actually a unique piece of political propaganda, commissioned by one Tuscan faction to sully the reputation of another.

Massa Marittima

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Romanian Rock Star

Teofil Peter

Hundreds of fans turned out Tuesday in this Transylvanian city (Cluj) for the funeral of a Romanian rock star killed in a car accident involving a U.S. marine, who has immunity from prosecution and later left the country.

Teofil Peter, a 50-year-old bass player with the popular Romanian band Compact, died in the crash early Saturday. Romania's Prime Minister Adrian Nastase appealed to resident George W. Bush on Tuesday to help bring the marine to justice, adding that his immediate departure from Romania after the accident has sparked outrage.

Romania had asked American authorities to hand over the marine for questioning. The marine allegedly failed to yield at an intersection, and hit a taxi Friday night in Bucharest, police said. A breath test showed the marine had been drinking, police said.

Teofil Peter

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This X-ray picture shows a 5-centimeter nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient's skull Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. According to a Seoul hospital, doctors found the nail after the man came to the hospital, complaining about a severe headache. They speculate that the nail stuck in the man's head four years ago in an accident but the man didn't know about it. The nail was removed in a surgery last Saturday.
Photo by Yonhap

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Tops Highest-Paid Actress List

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts is a mommy with big money. The actress, who recently gave birth to twins, tops The Hollywood Reporter's annual list of the highest-paid actresses. Her asking price per film? $20 million.

"Charlie's Angels" star Cameron Diaz is second (also sporting a $20 million price tag but didn't appear in any films in 2004) with Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Drew Barrymore (all worth $15 million each) rounding out the top five.

The sixth highest-paid actress is Halle Berry ($14 million), followed by Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie (both earning $12 to $15 million each), Renee Zellweger and Jennifer Lopez ($12 million).

Julia Roberts

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Octopus Doesn't Give Up on Motherhood

Aurora

It was a May-December romance that really had legs: Young Aurora, a female giant octopus and her aging cephalopod suitor J-1 were thrown together for a blind date seven months ago by aquarists who hoped the two would mate.

By all appearances, their fling was a success, and Aurora began dribbling long strings of eggs down the sides of her tank the following month. Though her sweetheart died of old age in September, the pitter-patter of tiny tentacles seemed close at hand.

But those tens of thousands of eggs remained pearly white with no signs of developing, and aquarists at the Alaska Sealife Center - concluding that the eggs were likely sterile - began draining Aurora's 3,600-gallon tank so she could be removed from display.

Then, last week, a sharp-eyed intern at the center in Seward noticed something peculiar in each of the eggs: two red dots.

For the rest - Aurora

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Upstate New York

Vaseline Vandalism

A Virginia man admitted Monday to smearing 14 jars of petroleum jelly all over an upstate New York motel room.

Robert F. Chamberlain, 45, of McLean, gave no reason for his actions when he appeared in court to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief.

Authorities said Chamberlain coated every object of the motel room with petroleum jelly in May. A cleaning crew discovered the mess after he checked out, and he was arrested at another motel covered in the greasy stuff.

Vaseline Vandalism

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Prime-Time Nielsen

Ratings

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Nov. 29-Dec. 5. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

1. (1) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 24.7 million viewers.
2. (3) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 22.7 million viewers.
3. (5) "Survivor: Vanuatu," CBS, 19.5 million viewers.
4. (7) "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 18.7 million viewers.
5. (X) Movie: "Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet In Heaven," ABC, 18.6 million viewers.
6. (9) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 17.9 million viewers.
7. (4) "Without a Trace," CBS, 17.7 million viewers.
8. (6) "ER," NBC, 17.7 million viewers.
9. (8) "NFL Monday Night Football: St. Louis at Green Bay," ABC, 17.4 million viewers.
10. (10) "Lost," ABC, 17.2 million viewers.
11. (14) "The Apprentice 2," NBC, 16.7 million viewers.
12. (12) "60 Minutes," CBS, 16.2 million viewers.
13. (16) "NCIS," CBS, 15.6 million viewers.
14. (15) "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 15.3 million viewers.
15. (X) "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," CBS, 14.9 million viewers.
16. (12) "CSI: NY," CBS, 14.9 million viewers.
17. (18) "Law & Order," NBC, 14.7 million viewers.
18. (20) "NFL Monday Showcase," ABC, 14.6 million viewers.
19. (11) "Cold Case," CBS, 13.6 million viewers.
20. (23) "The West Wing," NBC, 13.3 million viewers.

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In Memory

William Sackheim

William Sackheim, who produced television shows including "Gidget," and "The Flying Nun," and co-wrote the first "Rambo" movie, has died. He was 84.

Sackheim won Emmys for producing an episode of "The Alcoa/Goodyear Theatre" (1959) and the TV movie "The Law" (1975).

He produced several early TV movies, including "The Impatient Heart," starring Carrie Snodgress; "The Neon Ceiling," starring Gig Young and Lee Grant; "A Clear and Present Danger," starring Hal Holbrook; and "The Harness," starring Lorne Greene.

He co-produced films including "The In-Laws," "Pacific Heights" and "The Hard Way." He also co-wrote "First Blood," the first in the "Rambo" series, and produced and co-wrote the story for "The Competition."

As a television producer in the mid-1960s, he gave a young actress named Sally Field the chance to star in the "Gidget" series. Sackheim also hired the young Steven Spielberg to direct Joan Crawford in the 1969 pilot of "Night Gallery," a Rod Serling TV series.

He gave actor Judd Hirsch a big break by casting him in the 1974 TV movie "The Law," which he co-wrote and which served as the pilot for a 1975 miniseries.

Hirsch then starred in the series "Delvecchio," a 1976-77 police drama, which Sackheim executive-produced.

Sackheim is survived by his wife of 54 years, JoAnne; two sons, Daniel, a producer and Emmy-winning TV director, and Drew, a fashion photographer; and two grandchildren.

William Sackheim

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A two-month old long-nosed bandicoot, weighing around one gram, is fed milk by Sydney's Taronga Zoo keeper Tony Britt-Lewis during feeding time December 6, 2004. The endangered Australian marsupial is being taken home by Britt-Lewis due to it requiring 24-hour care, after it was brought to the zoo's wildlife clinic when its mother was killed by a car.
Photo by David Gray

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8 December, 2004

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Issue #131

Disinfotainment Today

'TBH Politoons'

Recommended Readings

from Bruce

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'I Shot Andy Warhol'

Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

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Tonight, Wednesday:

Thursday - 12/09

New Host Of 'Craiggers'

Craig Ferguson

Helps Launch Search Engine

Bill Clinton

Returns to Stage

Tommy Chong

'Offensive' Spiked Column Surfaces

James Goldsborough

99.8% Of Content Complaints

'Activists'

Trail Badly (Again)

Reporters

Hospital News

Mary Travers

Cancels European Tour

Marianne Faithfull

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Charges Dismissed

Robin Givens

5-Year Extension

The Young and the Restless

To Reunite

Motley Crue

Fertility Symbol or Political Poster?

Massa Marittima

Romanian Rock Star

Teofil Peter

Tops Highest-Paid Actress List

Julia Roberts

Octopus Doesn't Give Up on Motherhood

Aurora

Upstate New York

Vaseline Vandalism

Prime-Time Nielsen

Ratings

In Memory

William Sackheim

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