Bartcop Entertainment - Friday, 7 February, 2003

Friday

7 February, 2003

big hammer - bigger hammer

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'TBH Politoons'

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Thanks, again, Tim!

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Reader Reading Recommendation

from that MadCat, JD

Bush urges prayer during 'testing time for U.S.A.'


Thanks, JD! Started shaking my head from the first sentence.

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Reader Comment

Re: Optical Camo

The optical invisibilty suit with special camera was very convincing...yess. My magic ring workss better though.

Gollum


Yessssss, my preciousssssss. Sssssssometimessssss I jussssst like the colorssssss    ; )

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Pleasant day, weather-wise. Humidity is still lower than usual, and the cats are fickle about being brushed.

What a lot of birthdays today! Bob Marley, Raygun, Zsa Zsa, Tom Brokaw & Fud!

Did the CostCo loop, but was quite distressed on their re-packaging of toilet paper. For more than a decade I've been able to purchase the 'coffee tables of t.p.'. But, today, well, shit, to be blunt. The t.p. is now packaged like a giant futon that doesn't fold, instead of being 3-deep, and 12-square. Boo. Hiss.



Tonight, Friday, CBS opens with a 'special' - 'The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular', then a FRESH 'Hack', folowed by 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' - I don't know if it's FRESH or a RERUN, but I suspect it'll be a RERUN, covering for the recently cancelled 'Queens Supreme'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Brendan Fraser and Kids in the Hall.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Heidi Fleiss and Johnny Marr.

NBC is 'supposed' to have a FRESH 'Mr. Sterling', followed by a 'Dateline', but, there's a giant pink X across the listing in my guide, so, expect them to be pre-empted. Don't remember what it replacing them at the moment. The program in the 3rd hour of prime time, though, is a FRESH 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Casey Affleck and Susan Tedeschi.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan is Supergrass.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Bridget Moynahan, David Cross, Greg Giraldo, and French Kicks.

ABC offers a FRESH(?) 'America's Funniest Home Videos', then a FRESH 'Whose Line' (with Richard Simmons as guest), then a FRESH 'Drew Carey', and caps the night with '20/20'.

The WB has a FRESH 'What I Like About You', a FRESH 'Sabrina', a FRESH 'Reba', and a FRESH 'Greetings From Tucson'.

Faux offers a FRESH 'Fastlane', and a FRESH 'John Doe'.

UPN has the movie 'Mercury Rising'.

Check local PBS listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'!

TCM's early evening movie is Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo - or - in English - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967), directed by Sergio Leone, and starring Clint Eastwood as Blondie, The Man With No Name (The Good), Lee Van Cleef as Sentenza/Angel Eyes (The Bad), and Eli Wallach as Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez (The Ugly).
Later, they offer La Strada (1954), written & directed by Federico Fellini, and starring Anthony Quinn as Zampanò (''Zampanò is here!''), and Richard Basehart asIl 'Matto'-The 'Fool' - in the original Italian, with English subtitles!!!
Dining suggestions would include Chianti, early season fava beans, proscuitto with melon and cannoli for dessert.   ; )



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Big Dog Watch Continues

Bill Clinton In LA

Former President Bill Clinton gestures during a rare television interview with talk show host Larry King, left, on the CNN's 'Larry King Live' Thursday, Feb. 6, 2003, in Los Angeles. Clinton discussed many topics including his presidency, his dealings with Iraq, and his life since leaving the White House.
Photo by Rose M. Prouser

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'Shut Up'

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Smaller Audience Than Maher

Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmel's new late-night talk show has a smaller audience than the show it replaced, "Politically Incorrect," but ABC executives are pronouncing its first week a success.

Kimmel's post-"Nightline" show averaged 1.75 million viewers for its first week on the air, discounting the nearly 5 million who watched a special edition after the Super Bowl.

The last four weeks of "Politically Incorrect" averaged 2.1 million, Nielsen Media Research said.

Jimmy Kimmel

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Says He 'Didn't Inhale'

Billy Bush

There were plenty of funny-looking cigarettes being lit up at Guastivino on Sunday at the post-premiere party for "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," but Billy Bush says he didn't inhale. The cousin of the resident, a correspondent at "Access Hollywood," saw our item yesterday about his toking on wacky weed before hitting the dance floor, and called to plead his innocence. "It was all over the room, but as soon as I saw what was going on, I turned away," Bush said. "As for the bad dancing, guilty as charged."

Billy Bush

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The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel

Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

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New Jersey To Close

Howard Stern's Rest Stop

Thieves couldn't shut down Howard Stern's rest stop, but Gov. James E. McGreevey will.

New Jersey can't afford to keep open the Route 295 rest area that carries the radio host's name. It will be shuttered, reportedly at a savings of $1 million a year.

Twenty-three state workers are needed to staff the area around the clock, state officials said. It's one of three operated on state highways; rest areas on the New Jersey Turnpike and other toll roads are independently operated.

In March 1995, workers installed a black-and-silver plaque complete with a caricature of Stern peeking from an outhouse at the Springfield Township rest stop.

It was stolen within days, but someone later mailed Stern the plaque, which had been paid for by the state Republican Committee.

Howard Stern's Rest Stop

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Merrick Forrest of Brooklyn, N.Y., places some flowers at a Bob Marley statue, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2003, in Kingston, Jamaica. Merrick is a fan of Bob Marley and took the time to visit the statue on Marley's birthday.
Photo by Collin Reid

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Gets Hasty Pudding Honor

Anjelica Huston

Actress Anjelica Huston was crowned Harvard's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Thursday, but only after much comic confusion over whether she wasn't actually the singer Whitney Houston.

Huston, 51, was introduced as Houston, and the confusion continued as a member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, an undergraduate dramatic organization, rushed onstage to reveal the mistake. She was asked to prove her identity, and earn the brass pudding pot, by participating in spoofs of her movies.

Huston was asked to take part in a skit with an actor dressed in the distinctive red track suit Ben Stiller wore when he played Huston's son in "The Royal Tenenbaums."

She played along by feeding the actor from a bottle and singing him a lullaby — a monotone version of Houston's "I Will Always Love You."

Director Martin Scorsese is scheduled to be crowned Man of the Year on Feb. 13. Last year's recipients were Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis.

Anjelica Huston

www.hastypudding.org

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Marty's Turn This Year?

Martin Scorsese

Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein and DreamWorks honcho Steven Spielberg are taking a hiatus from their annual Academy Awards battle this year to support a Best Director win for Martin Scorsese. The rivals have been at war every Oscars season for the last decade, but this time around they're joining forces to see to it that Scorsese - who was snubbed by the Academy for "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas" - finally takes home the prize with Miramax's "Gangs of New York." Spielberg tells Variety, "All my energy at this time is focused on Martin Scorsese winning the big director's award."

Martin Scorsese

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Gets His Own MSNBC Show

Jesse Ventura

He's been a professional wrestler, talk-radio host and Minnesota governor. Next up for Jesse Ventura: his own cable show.

Ventura announced Wednesday on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" that he'll soon begin hosting a nightly program on MSNBC.

Ventura said he didn't know what day the show will begin airing, or who his first guest will be. He said he'll be on five nights per week, and probably start within a month.

The announcement will surprise few. News of the show had leaked out months before and the "Tonight Show" Web site had listed "MSNBC" as the reason for Ventura's visit.

Ventura did not say where the show will be based. Earlier reports said the Mall of America in Bloomington has been scouted as a possible location.

Jesse Ventura

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Spending Birthday in Hospital

Zsa Zsa

Zsa Zsa Gabor will spend her 86th birthday Thursday in the luxury suite of a hospital for aging movie stars in Woodland Hills, recuperating from a car accident late last year.

"Frederic is going to surprise me with something," Gabor told KNBC-TV Wednesday of her husband Frederic von Anhalt.

"I hope it's something very, very shiny," she added.

Zsa Zsa

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15 Minutes & Ticking

Cris Judd

Cris Judd, Jennifer Lopez)'s most recent ex-husband, just joined the cast of "I'm a Celebrity — Get Me Out of Here!"

Judd will rough it out in the Australia Outback with Melissa Rivers, Robin Leach, Downtown Julie Brown, Alana Stewart and others.

ABC will air the show live for 15 straight nights starting Feb. 19. Viewers will decide who stays in rainforest and who comes home, voting each night via phone or internet.

In the ABC show, eight celebrities would be put in a remote location, given tasks or trials to perform and be allowed to eat better food if they do well.

Cris Judd

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Crow & Chesney To Headline

Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert

Sheryl Crow and Kenny Chesney are among the four singers who will headline the Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert, a charity event being put on by Earnhardt's widow, Teresa.

The concert is set for June 28 at Daytona International Speedway and will be the first non-racing event to be held at the facility.

Brooks and Dunn and Alabama are the other artists scheduled to perform.

Tickets for the general public go on sale March 22. Premium subscribers to the Dale Earnhardt Inc. Web site, which is being launched next week, will be able to purchase tickets beginning, appropriately, on March 03 — 03-03-03.

Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert

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Apple of Advertisers' Eyes

Yao Ming

It's hard to get much bigger when you're already 7 feet 5 inches tall, but rookie basketball star Yao Ming is on the verge of joining the select ranks of globally recognizable celebrity endorsers.

Marketing experts say Yao's potential as a product endorser goes beyond his size, the novelty of being the first Chinese NBA star, or even his considerable skills on the court. They point to his easy-going charm on-camera -- a rare skill among athletes, and one that is difficult to teach.

While Yao is not yet in the exalted realm of Woods or Jordan, he does have some things they lack. He appeals to a massive Chinese audience in China and around the world that Western companies are urgently trying to reach. And because he is new to the public eye, at least in the United States, he is a blank slate.

"He's totally pristine. He hasn't had very many endorsements, or done anything wrong," said Liz Silver, Visa's senior vice president of advertising and brand management. "He's just universally loved right now -- except maybe by Shaq."

Yao Ming

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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More Hearings Planned

Media Ownership

A Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission plans to hold two more public hearings on the agency's review of media ownership restrictions, sidestepping the wishes of the agency's Republican chairman.

Commissioner Michael Copps said Wednesday that he would hold hearings next month at the University of Washington in Seattle and Duke University in Durham, N.C.

Copps is seeking public input on the FCC's review of whether decades-old media ownership restrictions are appropriate in a market altered by the growth of the Internet, satellite broadcasting and cable television.

FCC Chairman Michael Powell has said the hearing he scheduled in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 27 is all that's needed because the agency already has received about 13,000 comments from the public, most of them filed electronically.

In a statement issued after Copps' announcement, Powell said he commends interest in more public forums, but "in the digital age, you don't need a 19th century whistle-stop tour to hear from America."

Analysts say Powell and the two other Republican commissioners are intent on loosening regulations. Powell has said he wants rules that are supported by research and able to survive legal challenges.

Copps said the first of his hearings will be in early March at the University of Washington. The second will be at Duke later in the month.

Media Ownership

Federal Communications Commission


The air waves used to belong to the citizens - but no longer. In Michael Powell's world, only citizens with deep pockets, representing corporate interests matter. Public interest, convenience, & necessity are just words in the dictionary now, not the intended responsiblities of the FCC.

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Arlo Guthrie sings one of his father's songs during a benefit for the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archive at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2003.
Photo by John Russell

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Unusually Warm Winter - May Cancel Rondy!

Alaska

It has been unusually warm in Alaska over the past month - so warm that golf pro Jeff Barnhart welcomed a dozen players at the Palmer Golf Course this week.

"The only snow left is what we've plowed into piles in the parking lot," Barnhart said.

Typically by February, Alaskans are hoping for a reprieve from bitter cold and snow. But in some places brown grass is poking through the snow and trees are bare of snow.

According to the weather service, Anchorage temperatures have been above 30 degrees for nine straight days and have risen above the average high on 26 of the last 28 days. This week, temperatures inched into the 40s in southern areas of the state and into the 30s farther north.

There have been rain storms, avalanche warnings and general disarray. Mudslides and high wind suspended all mountain activity in the ski-resort town of Girdwood, while schools closed early this week in Fairbanks because of rain-slickened roads.

Ken Ford, president of Alaska Sled Dog and Racing Association, said the season has been a struggle because of the lack of snow. Cancellation of the upcoming Fur Rendezvous World Championships is a definite possibility.

Alaska

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Rethinking Old Perceptions

Vogue

Vogue is permanently rethinking its position on large women. Last April, the magazine for the first time featured a plus-size model, Kate Dillon, in its Shape issue. Now, Mia Tyler will be in this year's April issue. "I just did a four-page shot for them," Tyler said at the Lane Bryant show at Manhattan Center Tuesday night. Dillon added her Vogue shoot was "one of the best experiences I have ever had."

Vogue

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Wins 'Lost Funnybone' Suit

John Cleese

British comedian John Cleese, star of the Monty Python series, won damages from a London newspaper on Thursday after it printed a story asking if he had "lost his funny bone."

Cleese sued the Evening Standard after it wrote a story which pondered whether his recent move to the U.S. had resulted in him becoming a humiliating flop.

Among other things, the article said: "The American nation has rightly turned upon him...Such humiliation is richly deserved because of his arrogance and presumption." Justice Eady, who awarded Cleese $22,200, said the main element in assessing compensation was the impact on Cleese's feelings rather than damage to his career.

Although the Evening Standard had published an apology, it did so without any enthusiasm, the judge said.

Cleese, who gave evidence via a video link from his home in California, had earlier rejected a settlement offer from the Evening Standard of $16,440.

John Cleese

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PersephonePlus

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The Summer Sanitarium Tour

Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park & Metallica

Back in 1999, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich confessed to feeling "a tremendous amount of hatred toward Limp Bizkit."

Now Metallica is hitting the road with Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park for the second Summer Sanitarium tour, which will hit at least 18 U.S. markets this year, beginning July 4.

All three bands will play headline-length sets. Tickets for most of the shows will be going on sale Feb. 22. Mudvayne and the Deftones will be the opening acts.

Filling out the bill are "bands who are available, coming out with records and who want to do this type of show. The whole reason (behind Metallica) is to play live, and I think that's a common thread among all the bands."

The ink is not yet dry on some contracts so routing has not been finalized. It is expected that the tour will begin in a Midwestern city -- Minneapolis or St. Louis are the likely starters -- and then go from the East Coast to the West.

Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park & Metallica

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Interviewed Month Before Arrest

Phil Spector

A month before Phil Spector's arrest for murder, the record producer admitted to a reporter that he is "probably relatively insane."

Spector, 62, did his first interview in 25 years with The Telegraph of Britain at his house outside Los Angeles where 40-year-old actress Lana Clarkson was found shot dead a month later. Spector was arrested for investigation of the murder, but freed Monday night after posting $1 million bond.

In the interview, the eccentric Spector said he takes medication for schizophrenia, but he wouldn't call himself schizophrenic. He also admitted to having a bipolar disorder and said he was not well enough to function as a part of society, so he chose not to.

Phil Spector

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Cable TV Deal

Playboy & Adelphia

Cable TV operator Adelphia Communications Corp. and adult entertainment company Playboy Enterprises Inc. have struck a deal for Playboy to provide adult content to Adelphia digital subscribers, officials from both companies said on Thursday.

The agreement marks a major step for Playboy as it works to build its digital subscriber base because Playboy, like other content providers, receives more money per subscriber for digital viewers than for customers on older, analog systems.

One of Adelphia's most lucrative regions is west Los Angeles, so the deal also opens up a potentially high-end market for the four Playboy channels carried by Adelphia, Playboy TV, Spice, Spice 2 and the Hot Network.

Playboy's domestic TV division is its major growth engine. Through 2002's first nine months, group revenues were up 18 percent to $71 million from $60 million in the same period last year, while revenues at flagship Playboy magazine slipped by 5 percent to $70 million from $74 million.

In Los Angeles, the channels will be available starting in February, according to inserts that only recently began showing up in Adelphia subscriber bills, and Adelphia in its statement said the programming will begin rolling out "in early 2003."

Playboy & Adelphia

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Purchases Sacramento Station

KQED

One of the nation's most listened-to public radio stations has agreed to purchase a Sacramento station, expanding KQED-FM's reach from the San Francisco Bay area.

The $3 million deal to buy 89.3, KEBR, from Oakland-based Family Stations, Inc. - a large religious broadcasting network - lets KQED fill a gap in its signal and expand its listener base, said Jeff Clarke, president and CEO of KQED Public Broadcasting.

The all-news KQED has more than 740,700 listeners per week, with a signal that reaches from Ukiah in the north to Monterey Bay in the south, and east to the Sierra Nevada.

The move into Sacramento puts KQED in direct competition with Capital Public Radio, a network of stations that program a mix of news with jazz and classical music.

The deal must get Federal Communications Commission approval, which generally takes three to four months, Clarke said. He said an application will be submitted within the week and expected the new station to be running by late spring.

The call letters would begin with the letters "KQ," he said.

KQED

www.kqed.org

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Formerly 'The Vidiot'

pissed

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Take Over Seattle Park

Parrots

Seward Park, long known as a nesting site for a couple of pairs of bald eagles, has become the home of a growing colony of very noisy parrots.

No one knows how the long, emerald-colored birds with red freckles first arrived in the Seattle park, a peninsula jutting into Lake Washington west of Mercer Island.

Naturalists believe the parrots are nesting in large dead trees that can provide warmth when the birds huddle inside. Park visitors have reported them dining on discarded apples and wild salmonberries.

Similar types of parrots native to South America have made themselves at home in Hyde Park in Chicago and in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Parrots

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Fence-Post Virgin Mary

Australia

Combination picture shows a woman reaching to touch a fence post (image on right) that some Catholics believe appears as a likeness of the Virgin Mary at a lookout near Coogee beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs February 6, 2003. For more than a week devoted Sydney Catholics have been flocking to a vantage point about 300 metres (1,000 feet) from the small wooden fence which, when viewed at certain times each afternoon through squinted eyes (image on left), is believed to be a likeness of the Virgin Mary. Photo at left was deliberately shot out of focus to give an impression as if a person were squinting. Photo by Tim Wimborne

Catholics in the Australian city of Sydney are flocking to pray at a fence post at Coogee beach which they believe projects an image of the Virgin Mary.

Devotees say the Virgin can be seen in the afternoons from a vantage point 300 meters (yards) away from the white post, in the east of the city, and some believe she appeared to comfort Australians worried about a possible war in Iraq.

Others are more skeptical.

"If that's what they want to believe fair enough but I personally think it's a lot of rubbish -- it's just a fence," a British traveler told Reuters.

Australia

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Tried To Crash Lane Bryant Show

Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith wasn't invited to be in or at Tuesday night's Lane Bryant lingerie show at Manhattan Center - but she tried to get in anyway. "She showed up with the crew from her E! reality show in tow, and tried to crash the show," laughed our front-door spy. "They refused to let her in and she got dissed on national television." Lane Bryant is no fan of Smith after she showed up "out of it" last year, and was so unsteady on the catwalk she was kept away from reporters.

Anna Nicole Smith

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Kiss and Make Up

Virgin - Love

Courtney Love, the American rock singer cautioned by British police earlier this week for throwing a tantrum on a transatlantic flight, is welcome to fly back to Los Angeles with the same airline after saying "sorry."

Virgin Atlantic said on Thursday that Love, the 38-year-old widow of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, had apologized to the airline's boss Sir Richard Branson at a glitzy charity concert.

Over cocktails and canapes on Wednesday night, Love told Branson -- who made his fortune by creating Virgin Records -- that she was sorry for misbehaving.

Branson said he appreciated the apology and that she was welcome to fly with his airline again.

"Virgin Atlantic was built thanks to the rock industry and I like to think we are a bit more understanding than most airlines," he said in a statement.

"Perhaps Virgin's new slogan should be that 'Rock stars swear by us,"' he said.

Virgin - Love

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Jailed for Stealing Masterpieces

Art Lover

A Frenchman whose passion for art drove him to steal works worth tens of millions of dollars from museums and galleries in Europe was ordered jailed for four years on Thursday by a Swiss court, judicial sources said.

The prosecutor had sought a sentence of at least five years for Stephane Breitwieser, who claimed he stole for love of art and not money. He was convicted of 69 thefts between 1995 and 2001 in Switzerland.

The 31-year-old waiter, whose mother destroyed many of the stolen pieces after his arrest, confessed to stealing nearly 100 works in all, ranging from 16th and 17th century masters to antiques, in six European countries.

He told the court in this central Swiss town that he would have returned the works "in 10 or 15 years once my passion died."

Breitwieser's mother Mireille, who faces charges of handling stolen goods, threw some art works into the Rhine-Rhone canal near their home in Mulhouse and put others out for garbage collectors after her son's arrest. She was not involved in the Swiss case.

According to press reports, some of the works disposed of by Mireille, including paintings by French painter Antoine Watteau and Dutch master Peter Brueghel, have never been recovered.

Art Lover

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Former Assistant Sues

Marlon Brando

A woman who worked as a personal assistant for Marlon Brando for 25 years sued the actor in a Los Angeles court on Thursday, claiming he was trying to force her to repay $185,000 that he gave her as a gift to buy a home in London.

Caroline Barrett began working for Brando in 1976 and retired in 2001. He adopted Barrett's daughter, Petra, in 1981 but it was unclear whether the couple had a personal relationship.

The lawsuit states that Brando gave Caroline Barrett the money to buy a house in London after he moved there in 1985 so she could look after his affairs and "Petra could have roots," according to the lawsuit.

In September, she received a letter from Brando's attorneys saying that she was in default of the loan and that he intended to foreclose on her Los Angeles home unless she paid the full amount plus interest, the suit said.

Marlon Brando

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OK With Internment Camps

Howard Coble

A congressman who heads a homeland security subcommittee said on a radio call-in program that he agreed with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Rep. Howard Coble, (R-mouth-breather), made the remark Tuesday on WKZL-FM when a caller suggested Arabs in the United States should be confined. Another congressman who was interned as a child criticized Coble for the comment, as did advocacy groups.

"We were at war. They (Japanese-Americans) were an endangered species," Coble said. "For many of these Japanese-Americans, it wasn't safe for them to be on the street."

Like most Arab-Americans today, Coble said, most Japanese-Americans during World War II were not America's enemies.

Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., a Japanese-American who spent his early childhood with his family in an internment camp during World War II, said he spoke with Coble on Wednesday to learn more about his views.

"I'm disappointed that he really doesn't understand the impact of what he said," Honda said. "With his leadership position in Congress, that kind of lack of understanding can lead people down the wrong path."

The Japanese American Citizens League asked Coble to apologize and said he should be removed from his committee chairmanship.

"We are flabbergasted that a man who supports racial profiling and ethnic scapegoating" chairs the subcommittee, the group's national executive director, John Tateishi, said in a statement Wednesday.

Howard Coble


We were also at war with Germany, but they weren't considered an 'endangered species'?

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In Memory

Ralph Charles

Ralph Charles, who built planes for Orville Wright and was one of the nation's oldest pilots, died Sunday from pneumonia. He was 103.

He last flew in the summer of 2001 and appeared on NBC's "Today" show and the "Late Show" with David Letterman when he flew a plane on his 100th birthday in 1999.

Charles was a barnstormer in the 1920s, copiloted passenger airplanes for Trans World Airlines in the 1930s and was a civilian test pilot for the Navy during World War II. He also built planes for Wright in 1919 and operated a space shuttle simulator after NASA invited him to a launch in recent years.

He quit flying after the war at the insistence of his wife, Leona, and settled in Columbus where he had an automotive repair shop until the couple retired to Perry County in 1965.

But he never lost his passion and took up flying again in 1995 after her death.

"Imagine not driving a car for 50 years, only worse," Charles said in a 1999 interview. "Sometimes when I would mow, I would imagine my tractor was a plane and I was rising up into the sky."

Ralph Charles

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An employee at the Tokyo Dome amusement park looks at the 'centerless ferris wheel,' which the company says is the world's first without spokes or a hub in Tokyo, February 6, 2003. The ferris wheel, which rotates by a drive mechanism on the uprights, is set to open this May.
Photo by Yuriko Nakao

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'The Osbournes'

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Critical Date Approaches

Nick's Crusade

Nick Dupree's quest for care

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Take Back The Media!

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The Complete List of Grammy Nominations

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Who served?

The Chickenhawk Database

Draft Dodging Conservatives

Congressional Members with Military Service

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Daily, hour-by-hour listings

Internet Radio/TV For Progressives

World Media Watch, updated M-W-F

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