Bartcop Entertainment News - Wednesday, 29 August, 2001

(Bartcop Entertainment)

Wednesday

29 August, 2001

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Reader Review

Maybe I was wrong about Kristen being a ringer, but I think I'm more right than 
ever in my original suspicion about the killer.

Everything seems to be pointing at Connor, which is why I think she isn't the 
one. The major bit of evidence for this is her plot with Jimmy to blackmail 
Flint out of the $250,000. Why? Because Connor was about to meet with the 
General before he was suddenly killed. I think the General was using Connor to 
get his money back from Flint. Certainly, the General might have had motive to 
kill Flint because of this. So could Connor. But the General is off the list now, 
as it were.

But my old friend and #1 suspect, the Reverend, is not. What was he doing at 
that Cult Initiation anyway, and why was he running the show?  Suddenly, the 
quiet little preacher became the charismatic lunatic. Why was the General 
killed? Because he talked to the investigators. And who knew that? The Reverend, 
apparently his right hand man -- but perhaps the real head of the cult.

There is that small matter of Thibedeaux making the tape saying Connor admitted 
to killing Flint. And then Thibedeaux gets killed. But remember -- the killer 
forced one of his first victims, Mrs. Flint, to make a speech to the camera. 
Nothing says he couldn't do that to Thibedeaux, and if that killer is a mind 
control expert... I think Tibedeaux's video is a big red herring and that Connor 
is not the killer, but the players are going to really have to think in the next 
(and final) episode to figure that one out. Considering how badly the two 
investigators did with all those riddles at the cult compound, I don't think 
that's likely. But if they can connect the dots between Burn Man and Reverend
Crandall, I think they'll get it. Seeing as how one of the bits of business 
coming up next week is to retrieve all the stuff that was stolen from Burn Man's 
suicide cabin, I think they're being set up for it.

As for the final round and the Kristen factor -- well, I guess that theory went 
out the window tonight with her "death," so she really was just an extremely 
lucky player and not a plant. But notice that all of the clues that Jeff found 
connected to the cult: OSL, "Order, Strength & Logic," complete with burning 
cross -- and who's the other suspect most strongly connected to the cult?

I put my money on the Reverend. We'll find out next week...

 ~~Jon

Alex's Entertainment News

"American Pie 2" held strong 3rd weekend in a row, bringing its total to over 
$100 million.  It was followed closely by "Rush Hour 2".  Rounding up the top 5 
were "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", "The Others" and "The Rat Race".  I 
caught "The Rat Race" last week, and I thought it was hilarious.  Based on the 
plot of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (IMDB), it follows a great cast 
on a trip to a small town in New Mexico to retrieve a bag with $2 million.



Another "Big Brother 2" contestant is in hot water with the producers of the 
show after allegedly threatening a fellow contestant Sunday night. During what 
was described as a "confrontational chat" between Nicole, an Atlanta chef, and 
Will, a Florida physician, Nicole reportedly remarked that if he ever betrayed 
her, she would kill him by "slitting" his wrists "vertically not horizontally" 
with her chef's knife.  



CNN has landed the former supreme commander of NATO as a military analyst. 
Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark, who became NATO commander in 1997 and retired in May of 
last year, had commanded NATO operations in Kosovo during his term.






Nicole Kidman fanned the flames of her reported romance with Russell Crowe in 
Los Angeles Sunday night by making a rare public appearance to watch his band 
perform. A member of the audience says, "She was sat there with her arms resting 
on the balcony, in the front row the entire time Russell was playing. She wasn't 
raising attention to herself but certainly wasn't keeping a low profile. She was 
right there, making sure she didn't miss any of the action." 



Mira Sorvino has shocked Hollywood by insisting that movie stars really do have 
sex on film.  The "Summer of Sam" star - who won an Oscar for her role as a 
prostitute in "Mighty Aphrodite" - has revealed that some actors don't fake 
movie sex scenes.  But Sorvino refused to disclose which stars go all the way 
for the cameras.  She says, "It rarely happens that actors have proper sex in 
films. But it does, though - now and again. And other actors say that it does." 






BET supervising producer Kevin Taylor was on location in Bahamas shooting a 
behind-the-scenes all-access special on Aaliyah's new video.  He was supposed to 
be one of the passengers on that horrible flight, but took an earlier commercial 
flight earlier.  Read his interview and his details of the last day of Aaliyah's 
life: Kevin Taylor
  


Note from Alex: 
I was driving home at about 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning, and tuned in to 
HOT 97.1 FM in New York.  
I had to pull over for a minute when it registered in my head that the DJ 
said:  "We are continuing with our tribute to Aaliyah, who died 
tragically in a plane crash earlier."  She was a great singer, and was on her 
way to be a great actress, and she will be missed.
 
 ~Alex

Visit Alex's site at Alex's Place

Reader Music Suggestions

My picks:

Soundtrack CD to A MAP OF THE WORLD, Warner Brothers release starring Sigourney 
Weaver.  Music by Pat Metheny, also on Warner Brothers.  Excellent stuff.  
Emotional and mushy but never gets into ridiculous Mantovanian rubbish.  It's an 
excellent movie too.  About 73 people saw it because it played about 20 screens 
nationwide in the summer of 2000. I saw it when I was in Dallas.

LIVE IN NEW YORK, Joe Jackson (with 2 helpers) live CD with Eleanor Rigby, I'm 
in with the In Crowd, It's Different For Girls(of course) and others.

HEAVEN AND HELL, Joe Jackson with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and others.  Musical 
meditations on the Seven Deadly Sins.

SPIRIT INTO SOUND, Mickey Hart

Rock on anybody!  -- Ringo

 ~~Sharon

Week In Review

WEEKLY REVIEW

The Bush Administration announced that by next month the government surplus, 
excluding Social Security, will be closer to $600 million than the $122 billion 
it calculated back in April. President Bush hailed the disappearing surplus as 
"incredibly positive news," because it will force the government to resist 
overspending. Two days earlier, the president asked Congress to grant an 
additional $39 billion to the military, the largest increase since Ronald 
Reagan's presidency. The Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates for the 
seventh time this year, noting that the main threat to the economy is "economic 
weakness." New research found that robots are better at trading commodities than 
humans are. A 36-year-old Peruvian man chopped off his testicles to protest his 
continuing unemployment; last year he amputated his penis for the same reason.
Residents of Belpar, England, banished from their town square a giant Mr. Potato 
Head, a gift from their sister city in Rhode Island; the $6,000 present was part 
of the tourist board's campaign to position the state as "the birthplace of 
fun." The metal tail-fin of an F-16 missile dropped into a residential 
neighborhood in Florida, landing within ten feet of two children playing there. 
The federal government was investigating Johns Hopkins University for its 
experiment a few years ago in which healthy children were recruited to live in 
houses with varying degrees of lead contamination. An Oregon car dealer was 
fined $120,000 for selling seven cars in one month to a 78-year-old man with 
Alzheimer's disease.

[ continued at Weekly Review ]

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An amazing amount of information, on an amazing variety of TV shows, thanks 
to our Vidiot.

TV News

ABC said Tuesday it has ordered six additional episodes of ``The Wayne Brady 
Show,'' a variety series that has garnered strong ratings since its August 8 
debut.

The new installments are set to air sometime in January.

Garnering generally favorable reviews, the program is a throwback to 
sketch-comedy and variety classics like ``The Carol Burnett Show'' and the 
``Flip Wilson Show,'' a genre that has been mostly absent from prime-time TV 
since the 1970s.

Brady pitched the idea of the show to ABC under a development deal he had with 
the network and producers and Touchstone Television, both owned by the Walt 
Disney Co. It was initially a ``hard sell,'' but ABC ultimately decided to 
gamble on a format that ``has not worked in years,'' he said.

He said he hoped that and a ``glut'' of reality TV would help boost interest in 
a summer ``where you just laugh or you're just entertained.''

To read the rest of this funny piece, Wayne Brady

Music News

About five years ago Alain Coblence, a French lawyer with a practice in New 
York, had an idea for a business that would draw on his lifelong passion for 
classical recordings. It began as a comparatively simple idea: he was going to 
start a record label, called Andante. 

But by the time Andante's first discs went to press its first group of six 
multidisc sets is to be released this month Mr. Coblence had transformed his 
business into something grander, a Web site www.andante.com
where classical music fans would be able to hear both recent and archival 
concert performances by some of the world's great orchestras and opera companies 
and where visitors could satisfy a broad range of musical needs, from finding 
interesting concerts to reading treatises on contemporary music theory. 

Andante.com has been online only since April, but it has already become 
the gold standard among classical music Web sites, a chaotic jumble that 
includes everything from fan sites devoted, with varying degrees of 
sophistication, to performers and composers, to Webzines focused on particular 
corners of the field (particularly opera, where partisan debates flourish) and 
commercial sites meant to move concert tickets and recordings but dressed up as 
sources of news and information. 

To read this very long article, Streaming The Classics

NEW!

Check it out at BC Astrology.

Have you ever checked out Eric Clapton or Chet Atkins' 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

Book News

In a radical effort to pull an entire city away from video screens and into the 
pages of literature, Chicago officials are asking every adult and adolescent in 
the city to read the same book at the same time.

The book they have chosen is Harper Lee's powerfully anti-racist novel, "To Kill 
a Mockingbird," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Libraries throughout the 
city have braced for an onslaught by putting more than 4,000 copies of the book 
on their shelves, including Spanish and Polish translations. Bookstores reported 
sharp increases in sales even before the seven-week project was officially begun 
on Saturday.

"They're flying off the shelves, and librarians across the country are sending 
me e- mails saying they want to do the same thing," said Mary Dempsey, Chicago's 
library commissioner. "It's exciting partly because this book deals with 
important themes like civil rights and social justice, but it's also about 
creating a culture of reading."

Credit for the original idea is often given to Nancy Pearl, a Seattle librarian 
who conceived it after her library received a grant from the Lila 
Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund (now part of the Wallace Funds). The Seattle 
library has turned the project into an annual event.

The choice of "To Kill a Mockingbird" was made by a committee of Chicago 
librarians. Committee members said they considered a variety of factors, 
including that the book is one of Mayor Daley's favorites. "There's a strong 
message there, not just for the city but for the country and the world, a 
message about racial or religious or ethnic or class prejudice," Mayor Daley 
said. "But first of all, this project is about reading, not just reading this 
book but reading in general. It's all about literacy and how really important it 
is in the modern age."

The book has sold 30 million copies since its publication, but it has also been 
banned or removed from libraries or reading lists in several places. Some of 
those who dislike it are uncomfortable with its portrayal of blacks as victims 
of discrimination. But others, among them some blacks, have objected to it 
because it contains a racial slur, even though it condemns that slur. This month 
school officials in Muskogee, Okla., removed it from a list of required reading 
for high school freshmen, citing the slur.

To read all of this article, Chicago Reads

TV News

He still leaps tall buildings in a single bound, but he no longer does it in 
tights.

The latest version of ``Superman,'' debuting this fall as the WB network 
series ``Smallville,'' will still have the beloved comic-book superhero flying 
faster than a speeding bullet. But he will be wearing a work shirt and jeans, 
not the tight-fitting costume and red cape of yore.

The coming television ``reinterpretation,'' which will chart Superman's growth 
as a teen, has fans of the Man of Steel on the verge of taking kryptonite in 
protest.

For example, the Los Angeles Times quoted Lakers star Shaquille O'Neal, who has 
the Superman logo tattooed on one of his massive arms, as saying: ``My question 
is, how can people determine who Superman is (without the costume)? That's crazy.''

Screenwriter and director David Mamet told the paper, ``I am a big fan of anyone 
who can make his living in his underwear.''

To read all of this story, Newest Superman 

In The News

Paula Poundstone is winning her battle against booze, her lawyer said yesterday 
as a pretrial hearing was set in the embattled comic's sordid child-abuse case.
 
"She's doing very well in rehab. She's helping other people and she's a role 
model in the program," lawyer Steven Cron said outside Santa Monica Superior 
Court. 

Poundstone, 41, has been free on a $200,000 bond and is in a live-in rehab 
program for alcoholism. On June 27, she was charged with three counts of 
committing a lewd act on a girl under 14, and endangering four other kids. 

Prosecutors won't reveal details, but The Los Angeles Times says the case 
involves her own children. She has three adopted and two foster kids. 

To read even more, Paula

In The News

Whoopi & The Flooz Blues

Whoopi Goldberg has become the latest celebrity to lose money on a 
once-promising Internet venture.

Flooz.com, the online gift currency company she had been promoting for two 
years, will file for bankruptcy, according to its Web site.

As for Goldberg, she reportedly owned about 10% of the company, which she 
acquired in lieu of cash for her services as celebrity pitchwoman.

Goldberg was just one of the many celebrities to opt that their form of payment 
be, at least in part, equity in the dot-coms they pitched, a strategy best used 
by William Shatner in his near-legendary deal with Priceline.com.

Shatner made millions with his quirky TV and radio ads for Priceline, though not 
nearly as much as he could have made had he cashed out of the company when its 
shares traded at $165 each. He did, however, sell 35,000 shares at $90, but in 
February he still held options for 90,000 shares. Priceline closed Monday 
at 5.76.

Most celebrities, including Shatner, took equity in startup Internet companies 
before the firms went public. Many of those companies have abandoned any hope of 
going public anytime soon and are fighting just to stay in business.

"If you've got worthless equity in an Internet company by the end of this year, 
it will be worthless forever," Keenan Vision Inc. Internet analyst Vernon Keenan 
said.

To read the rest of this article, Flooz Blues

SAG Election Heats Up Another Notch

SAG Election
Heating Up

Melissa Gilbert

Valerie Harper

The battle for the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild heated up Monday with 
Valerie Harper spurning rival Melissa Gilbert's invitation to take part in a 
public debate.

``The subject of a debate has been ill-advisedly raised, and it is something I 
cannot and will not support,'' Harper said, adding that it was ``inappropriate'' 
to involve the public in the union's elections.

Gilbert has selected former ``MASH'' star Mike Farrell as her running mate. 
Farrell has agreed to run for the post of 1st VP. His competition is Harper 
backer Anne-Marie Johnson. As Gilbert has done during her month-long campaign, 
Farrell blamed current SAG president William Daniels for what he perceives as a 
lack of leadership and civility in the boardroom. Harper has been endorsed by 
Daniels, who is retiring after a single two-year term. 

To read the whole story, SAG Elections Heat Up

In The News

Yesterday, the ever-intrepid Virgil, and crew, hit the road, on their way to
Black Rock City.  There will be pictures this year!  
Koresh bless their digital camera and laptops.  

 ~~Marty

In Memory

Jazz musician John Nelson, the father of pop star Prince, died Saturday. Nelson 
was 85. 

In the 1950s, Nelson was a pianist in the jazz group Prince Rogers Trio 
featuring singer Mattie Shaw. Shaw and Nelson married, and they named their son 
Prince Roger Nelson. 

Nelson co-wrote "Computer Blue" on the "Purple Rain" album, "The Ladder" on 
"Around the World in a Day"; "Christopher Tracy's Parade" and "Under the Cherry 
Moon" on "Parade" and "Scandalous" on the "Batman" soundtrack. 

To read more, John Nelson

Still MISSING




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

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