Bartcop Entertainment News - Wednesday, 22 August, 2001

(Bartcop Entertainment)

Wednesday

22 August, 2001

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Reader Review

Okay -- more about my Kristen theory. She goes out for the fourth time, and comes 
back again. Granted, I don't know how the producers could have rigged this one, 
what with her meeting up with an injured Thibedeaux and all, but then again, we 
don't know for sure that he couldn't have wound up at the other location.

And how was it that Kristen knew there were twelve sweepers at the pier?  That was 
a "no way they can answer" question, and she happened to know it. And she's 
survived the death match four times out of four now. I smell a fix.

As for the murder, there are two obvious threads running here. One is Flint's bank 
account -- depositing $9,999 every few days, an amount designed to not be noticed. 
That smells like a blackmail payoff to me.  Either that or some highly illegal 
business deal. Either way, it's incentive for whoever is paying the money to kill 
him -- or it could be a red herring. Rather nice of the producers to print the bank 
statement on thicker paper, though, to make the reassembly from the shredded bits
easier.

The other, more interesting, thread is Burn Man's video confession to killing Oscar 
Blodgett. That certainly puts a twist on things, and the current killer (remember, 
Burn Man is apparently dead) having the tape says a lot. Is the killer getting 
revenge on Blodgett's killers? Does this mean that Leita was somehow involved in 
her husband's murder? And would somebody please ask what Tattoo Man's connection to 
Burn Man is?  The Tattoo/Burn patterns are just too damn similar to be a 
coincidence, especially not in a TV show. Oscar was a fisherman, with a boat. Is 
some kind of smuggling involved, and was the money Flint's split of the profits? 
Was Flint killed because his criminal actions led to Blodgett's murder?

I'm still not convinced that Reverend Crandall isn't the killer. And that answering 
machine timing problem? What's to say that he didn't intentionally set the clock 
off to set up his alibi for killing Leita, then left the machine "wrong" to throw 
the investigators off the trail?

Anyway, I believe more than ever now that Kristen is not a player, she's an 
actor -- and that the killer is not an obvious choice. Eliminate anyone who works 
on a boat or near the sea, because I think that's just what the killer and 
producers want them to think right now.

 ~~Jon

Alex's Entertainment News

Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar banned her boyfriend Fredie Prinze Jr. from showing 
his butt in his new movie "Summer Catch".  Sarah forced the director to employ a 
stunt bottom for the scene.  After that, Sarah put away her whip and double checked 
the chain around Freddie's neck.


There are reports that Sylvester Stallone and Gary Scott Thomas (Author of Fast and 
the Furious), have both signed deals to develop a NASCAR-themed series for NBC.  
Stallone, who also wrote and starred in "Driven", will write and direct the new 
series.


Update: The father of U2's Bono has passed away.  He was battling cancer.


On a personal note, August 19th marks the 10-year anniversary of the Coup by 
Communists that eventually led to a collapse of the USSR.  For 3 days, August 19 
through August 21, the whole country was in limbo.  For more information on those 
horrible days (and believe me, I lived there, they were horrible) you can read my 
page: My Story or Alex 2.


 ~Alex

Visit Alex's site at Alex's Place

NEW!

Check it out at BC Astrology.

Have you ever checked out Robert Johnson's or Andres Segovia's horoscope?

Pretty cool stuff!


(And, to read Buzzcook's riff, see bcEntertainment (7/31/01)).

Cutting to the chase, here is Buzzcook's list of guitar gods:

Chick Webb

Robert Johnson

Albert King

John Lee Hooker
Hell if you don't already know John Lee, no link will save ya.

Joe Pass

Django Reinhardt

Andres Segovia

Mr. Guitar

Week In Review

WEEKLY REVIEW

Astrophysicists found evidence that the speed of light and other laws of nature 
might have changed over time. Donald Rumsfeld, the American secretary of defense, 
explained that his much-ballyhooed "revolution in military affairs" was not a 
revolution at all but was instead a "transformation": "When they see that word," 
he explained, seeking to comfort critics in Congress and among the troops, "there's 
a tendency to think that you go from this to something different." In fact, he
said, you can do something rather modest, like improve communications, which "could 
be characterized as transformed or transformational." President George W. Bush 
declared that peace would come to the Middle East only after everyone stopped 
fighting. Arab leaders warned that extremists might come to power in their 
countries if America didn't do something about the conflict in Palestine. President 
Bush was worrying about vampires. Poultry companies were planning to make billions 
of chicken clones. A giant sea turtle that was being tracked via satellite by 
thousands of schoolchildren was barbecued and eaten at a fiesta in a Mexican 
village. Slobodan Milosevic turned 60. Megawati Sukarnoputri, the new president of 
Indonesia, acknowledged the independence of East Timor for the first time and 
apologized to residents of Aceh and Irian Jaya for their suffering under
"inappropriate national policies."

[ continued at Weekly Review ]

Humor News

John Cleese, the gangly creator of the classic ``Fawlty Towers,'' said on Tuesday 
that American television comedies were funnier than British shows.

Cleese, a master at portraying the repressed Englishman, mourned the passing of a 
golden era, complaining that ``For the first time for a very long time the comedy 
on American television is rather better than we are producing.''

Speaking from his Californian home in Santa Barbara, he told BBC Radio: ``I thought 
British television was the best in the world or, as somebody memorably said a few 
years ago, the least bad television in the world.

Cleese was once hailed as one of Britain's greatest comic geniuses but critics have 
berated him for not having created any new gems for at least two decades.

After reports that Cleese was planning to abandon Britain, the Daily Mail said: 
``There are few sights in life more nauseating than that of a pampered British 
celebrity scuttling off to America, slagging off their homeland as they go.''

Cleese was swift to put the record straight: ``I haven't the slightest intention of 
quitting England.''

He plans to divide his time between Britain and the United States.

And there is no doubting Cleese's love affair with America.

He has been married three times to American blondes. He was introduced to his third 
wife, psychoanalyst Alyce Faye Eichelberg, by his doctor. ``I got her on 
prescription,'' he is fond of saying. 

To read the whole interview, John Cleese
 

Book News

Viking will publish a bio by Patricia Bosworth titled "Marlon Brando." In it is 
Brando on Hollywood: "They start by seducing you and end up p- - - - - - on you." 

Brando on producers: "They're stupid f- - -s. I'll take my money and that's it." 

Brando on one of his films: "It makes as much sense as a rat f- - - - - - a 
grapefruit." 

Brando on Sophia Loren: "She had bad breath." 

Brando on Brando: "I'm a balding, middle-aged failure . . . I've tried everything . 
. . f- - - - - -, drinking, working. None of them mean anything." 

Brando on his dead father: I want God to "give him to me alive for eight seconds 
because I just want to break his jaw . . . to smash his face and watch him spit 
out his teeth. I want to kick his b- - - - into his throat. I want to rip his ears 
off and eat them in front of him. I want to separate his larynx from his body and 
shove it in his stomach." 

The bio says he admitted not liking his son Miko, he once insisted "on lying on a 
bed of ice to re-create his mother's death throes," and his impossible attitudes 
were called by Richard Harris "unprofessional and absolutely ridiculous." 

She writes: "He was thrilled to direct, to have total control. He became involved 
with every aspect of 'One-Eyed Jacks,' from costumes to sets to lighting." Even 
"had a dozen horses brought to his home. They trotted around the garden while he 
'auditioned' them." He called meetings to order in the dining room by stroking a 
big brass gong." 

But "one day an executive came by and commented: 'You're looking into the wrong 
end of the viewfinder.' Said Marlon: 'Holy s- - -. Maybe that's why the picture is 
so late.' " 

Brando reacts to pressure by overeating. "Karl Malden recalls him gorging on two 
enormous meals, one after the other, topped off with apple pie a la mode and an 
entire quart of milk." Others remember him "eating peanut butter out of a jar." 
The night before he began shooting, "The Score" the man polished off two steaks. 

To read more, Marlon Speaks

What's On eBay This Week?

In a partnership announced Tuesday, the Tiger Woods Foundation will offer exclusive 
packages through auctions on eBay, including a chance for a foursome to play golf 
with the world's No. 1 player at his home course in Florida. 

Last year, four men combined to bid $204,000 through ultimatebid.com to play 18 
holes with Woods at Isleworth Country Club outside Orlando. 

Steinberg said a fair market value will be placed on each item. eBay would get a 
percentage above the market value plus costs, with net proceeds going to the Tiger 
Woods Foundation. 

He said it was not an endorsement deal, and that eBay would not be allowed to use 
Woods' image to promote its online auction site. 

To read more about it, Golf With Tiger

Radio News

Paul Harvey returned to the airwaves sounding a bit hoarse but telling his audience 
he ``feels so good to be back.'' 

The 82-year-old broadcaster had been absent from his daily radio shows since 
mid-May while recovering from what he believed at first was a severe case of 
laryngitis. Doctors later diagnosed a virus that had settled in one of his vocal 
cords, and he was treated in Chicago earlier this month, Chris Berry, vice 
president of ABC News Radio, said Monday. 

Harvey's voice sounded scratchy and hoarse as he began his broadcast with his 
trademark ``Good Morning, Americans,'' with news of Tropical Storm Chantal and 
President Bush's visit to Milwaukee. But it seemed to clear up as he went along, 
and near the end of the program, Harvey broke into song. 

Harvey will do only his morning broadcast and his daily ``Rest of the Story'' 
program for a few weeks, leaving the duties of his 15-minute midday program to 
guest hosts while he continues to recover, Berry said. 

To read the whole story, A Little Hoarse

International News

Angelina Jolie will become the United Nations' latest celebrity ambassador at a 
ceremony next week, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday. 

Kris Janowski, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said Jolie 
would be appointed a goodwill ambassador Monday during an event at the agency's 
Geneva headquarters. 

Last month, the 26-year-old actress visited Cambodia as a guest of the UNHCR, which 
is working with displaced people and returned refugees in the country. Jolie also 
has visited UNHCR work sites in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Tanzania. 

Current ambassadors include Muhammad Ali, Michael Douglas, former Spice Girl Geri 
Halliwell and French soccer star Zinedine Zidane. 

To read the whole story, Angelina Jolie

Concert News

Jermaine Jackson received some high fives for high ethics when he dropped out of 
brother Michael's coming big Madison Square Garden show, saying it wasn't for 
charity. But Us Weekly put some of this in perspective with their revelation that 
Jermaine maybe shouldn't be critical of his younger brother. 

It seems Jermaine and his family reside in the same house with the Jackson 
parents - a house supported and paid for by Michael. As the magazine puts it, 
"Michael's charity is Jermaine!" 

To read the story, Jermaine

Gymnastics News

She's gone from doing backflips for Bela Karolyi to making copies for John McCain. 

But Kerri Strug, the heroine of the 1996 U.S. gymnastics team, is content just 
being one of the thousands of interns who perform the menial tasks that keep 
government moving. 

For the last seven weeks, she has commuted from the Washington suburbs to Capitol 
Hill for her internship in the office of Sen. McCain, R-Ariz. 

Her duties are mundane enough: replying to constituent letters, making copies and 
answering phones. 

Although her parents are stalwart Republicans and longtime McCain supporters, 
Strug's real interest is not politics. After a one-year graduate program at 
Stanford, she wants to teach and then possibly go into advertising. 

``There's a lot of teamwork, I had no idea how many staff members were behind a 
senator,'' she said. ``Seeing all these interns and personnel who have these high 
hopes of making a difference and making America a better place is really inspiring.'' 

To read the whole story, Kerri & John
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Art News

Two months ago, when a painting by Marc Chagall was stolen from its place on the 
wall in the Jewish Museum, the authorities were confounded. The theft was 
discovered the morning after the museum held a cocktail reception attended by more 
than 200 potential witnesses, and the painting vanished with little trace other 
than a lone metal screw that was left on the carpet.

Now, the authorities said, there is an equally confounding clue.

The museum has received a letter from someone claiming to be involved in the theft 
and making a demand far outside the world of curators and exhibitions. It is not 
money the letter writer seeks, nor fame, but something far more elusive: the 
painting, the writer said, will not be returned until peace has been achieved 
between Israel and the Palestinians, the authorities and a museum official said. 

The incident appears to be a highly unusual instance of art being stolen for 
political ends. The last time anything comparable happened, one art expert said, 
was the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch's "Scream," which was briefly the subject of 
demands from abortion opponents in Norway. In that case, the painting was recovered, 
and the authorities said the demands were made by someone who had not actually taken 
the painting.

In the Chagall theft, the letter to the Jewish Museum was postmarked in the Bronx 
on June 12 and signed by an organization that F.B.I. and police officials said they 
had not heard of, the International Committee for Art and Peace. The authorities 
said they had no other evidence of its existence. 

The Chagall case has put the Jewish Museum in an unenviable position, Mr. 
Shillingford said, since the museum's staff and Chagall's admirers cannot 
reasonably be expected to have any influence over the peace process in the Middle 
East.

To read the whole story, Stolen Chagall
 

(Thanks, Carl!)

In Memory

Soul singer Betty Everett, best known for her 1964 hit 
"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)," died Sunday in her home in 
Beloit, Wisconsin. 

She was 61. 

Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"

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