Bartcop Entertainment - Friday, 19 April, 2002

Friday

19 April, 2002

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Alex's Entertainment Report

Alex

Madonna Miffed

Pop queen Madonna has angrily hit out at reports she is expecting her third child. In recent weeks, the British media has been rife with speculation Madonna is pregnant with husband, director Guy Ritchie's second child. The 43-year-old singer has been spotted patting her stomach and recent photos have shown her looking stockier than usual. But Madonna's press agent Moira Bellas has scotched reports the star is pregnant, insisting, "We have been inundated with calls. I have personally been in contact with Madonna's camp more than once about it and am reliably informed that she's not pregnant." The denial has failed to dampen speculation, considering Madonna's representatives made similar statements when she was pregnant with her first two children, Lourdes, now five, and one- year-old Rocco.

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Ryan Phillippe As 'Leatherface'?

Hollywood hunk Ryan Phillippe is reported to have signed up to play Leatherface in a remake of 1974 classic horror flick The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The star - whose wife is sexy actress Reese Witherspoon - will have to put on weight, wear dead skin, take to transvestitism and run around hacking up teenagers with a chainsaw for the part. But Hollywood sources say the 27-year-old is keen to take on the role. Production of the film, which will be produced by Michael Bay' Platinum Dunes production company, is due to start this summer.

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Kirsten Dunst Upside-Down

Kirsten Dunst's steamy upside-down kissing scene in the new Spide-Man movie was one of the hardest she had to shoot. Dunst's Mary Jane will be seen kissing Tobey Maguire's arachnid hero in Sam Raimi's long-awaited film. She says, "You know, that was actually really uncomfortable, because we were in the rain, and it was cold, first of all, and Tobey couldn't breathe, because I had pulled his mask like to there, and he was hanging upside down soaking wet." Maguire adds, "I was hanging upside down. It was five in the morning. Rain was going up my nose. And then when she lifted the mask up, the mask was then sitting on my nose, so I couldn't breathe through my nose. And then she was kissing my mouth, so I couldn't breathe through my mouth. And there's no other places to breathe from. So I would have to suck air out of the corner of our mouths."

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Steffi Offing Sam?

Rumors have resurfaced that ABC News is set to oust Sam Donaldson from the Sunday newsmaker show "This Week" and replace him with George Stephanopoulos. Donaldson's current co-moderator, Cokie Roberts, has already announced her intention to leave the show when her contract expires in November. A spokeswoman for "This Week" told the online edition of TV Guide, "ABC is planning to make changes to 'This Week' but final decisions have not been made." Last month, ABC News officials denied a similar report that appeared in the Hollywood Reporter about Stephanopoulos replacing Donaldson. At the time, Donaldson said that he had been assured by David Westin that he would remain on the program. A few days later, the veteran correspondent condemned what he described as an effort by all networks, including his own, to reduce serious news content, citing ABC's apparent eagerness to dump Nightline and replace it with David Letterman. Two years ago, Donaldson said that he had been assured by Westin that he would be assigned to front documentary specials for the network. He also expressed confidence that he would be able to contribute features about politics to ABC's magazine shows, including Primetime, which he once co-anchored with Diane Sawyer. Instead, he has been relegated to fronting an experimental Internet newscast that attracts a relative handful of people.


~~ Alex

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'Uncommon Sense'

The always-entertaining Jeff Crook has updated again, and has a new animation just for this weekend - and it's the best one (yet)!

Check it out - 'Uncommon Sense'


Thanks, Jeff!

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Reader Comment

Too Much Ozzy

Michelle V.

What in the world is so amusing about watching the ''antics'' of an admitedly fucked-up excuse for a ''family''? Is it to give an object lesson to teens of the ravages of drug/alcohol abuse? An admitted fascination with what happens to the English language when mauled to debauched minimalism? An intrinsic feral craving to hear the word ''fuck'' until stupefied? To prove the adage that even the rich aren't immune from idiocy?

Given the inordinate room you've given to glorifying this orgy of DT/TV, I feel almost strangely sorry that I've not had the religious experience of witnessing the illustrious Mr. Osborne in any of his manifestations; --- almost.

Michelle V.


Jeez, Michelle - I don't look at it so much as 'glorifying' Ozzy & his past. Perfer to look at it like, shit, he's still among the living! And, his kids still talk to him. That in itself is something. Kelly & Jack may be little potty mouths, but, they speak with both their parents, and no one is wondering what they meant. Kelly & Jack, unlike - oh, let's say the pResident's family, are still way short of run-ins with the law. And don't think that if LAPD could bust an Osbourne they wouldn't.

How many dui's does Ozzy & his family have compared to either the pResident or dick cheney and their respective immediate families?

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Fun Link

'Frisky After Sixty'

Got this link in the mail. Don't know Judy & Jeff, but it looks like they might be on to something.

Frisky After Sixty

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

The kid is being prepared for the SAT 9 test in 10 days. Pretty much it seems the curriculum follows the test, instead of the other way around. What a racket.

PBS did the carnivores no favors tonight.



Tonight, Friday, CBS is scheduled to air 'AFP: American Fighter Pilot', a fresh 'First Monday' and '48 Hours'.
Dave is still in reruns, with Rene Russo & Bob Sarlatte.
Craiggers is a rerun with Luke Wilson & Elizabeth Berkley.

On NBC it's a fresh 'Providence', 'Dateline' and a rerun 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Katie Couric, DJ Qualls & Hoobastank.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan is a lesson in geology with The Rock & Stone Phillips.

ABC pisses away 2 hours with variations of so-called 'Funniest Videos/Commercials'. Then, it's '20/20' with Barbara Walters & her pet pinniped.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Carrot Top, Tim Matheson & Lauren Kitchens.

The WB is all fresh with 'Sabrina', 'Raising Dad', 'Reba' and 'Maybe It's Me'.

Faux has reruns of 'That 70's Show' and 'Malcolm', then a fresh 'Dark Angel'.

UPN is pre-empted for Rupert's Doggers here.

'NOW With Bill Moyers' is probably on a local PBS station & it kicks ass!

HBO has Chris Rock at 10:45pm (edt), with Stanley Crouch & De La Soul, followed by Dennis Miller with Steve Harvey.



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'Murder For Gain'

Robert Blake Arrested

In this image from television, actor Robert Blake, left center near the car wearing white shirt, is seen being placed into a police vehicle Thursday, April 18, 2002, in Los Angeles, according to CNN. Authorities arrested Blake for the shooting death of his wife Bonny Lee Bakely nearly a year ago, his attorney said. (AP Photo/CNN, Courtesy of KTTV)

Actor Robert Blake, best known for playing a detective on the hit TV series "Baretta," was arrested on Thursday for the murder of his wife almost a year ago, police said.

A police spokesman, Don Cox, said Blake's bodyguard, Earl Caulfield, was also arrested in connection with the shooting death of 44-year-old Bonny Lee Bakley, on May 4, 2001.

Police took the 68-year-old actor into custody and local television stations broke into programming to show him being driven in an unmarked white police car from his sister's house to police headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.

Blake, who began his career as a child actor in the "Our Gang" movies and has appeared in 127 films, was acclaimed for his portrayal of killer Perry Smith in 1967's "In Cold Blood," based on Truman Capote's book of the same name.

Since the murder, Blake put his Los Angeles home on the market for more than $1 million.

Robert Blake

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Member Of 'The Lonely Author's Club'

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton was the uninvited surprise guest of honor at the book party for Rep. Peter King's second novel, "Deliver Us From Evil," at the Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Long Island Republican, who was instrumental in helping Clinton broker peace in Northern Ireland, had no idea the ex-prez was in the capital, and didn't invite him. (He did invite Sen. Hillary Clinton, who didn't make it to the bash.) Asked to speak, Clinton said, "I'm just here as part of the lonely author's club." Clinton, who said his memoir was coming along, praised King's "rip-roaring good book" to such other members of Congress as Carolyn McCarthy, Marty Meehan, Steve Israel, Felix Grucci, Jack Quinn and Charlie Rangel. The novel is blurbed by publisher Roberts Rinehart as "a congressman implicated in brutal murders, a president facing impeachment and a peace process hanging in the balance." A tieless Clinton, in a red-and-white checked shirt, said he's adjusting to life as a political spouse and "having to wear brighter shirts."

Member Of 'The Lonely Author's Club'

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In The Matter Of Finley v. Kitaen

Tawny Kitaen

What he says; What the nanny says

7 pages of Tawny's Prescriptions (in under 3 years!)

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Big Dog Watch Continues

Back In Little Rock



Former President Clinton, right, looks at the basement room at the L.C. and Daisy Bates house in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, April 18, 2002, while attending a fund-raiser to restore the home as a museum. The house is where in 1957, the Bates hosted the Little Rock Nine to Thanksgiving dinner, the group of African-American students who first integrated into Little Rock High School. Leroy James of the Ministerial Alliance looks on.
Photo by Danny Johnston

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BartCop TV!

BC TV

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Broken Ribs & Kevin Costner

Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall fell from a horse while training for a role in an upcoming Western and broke several ribs, a spokeswoman for the veteran actor said on Thursday.

Duvall, 71, was resting at home after the injury and doctors expected he would be recovered by June when "Open Range," a Walt Disney Co. Western co-starring Kevin Costner, is due to begin filming in Alberta, Canada, she said.

Costner is also set to direct the upcoming movie, set against the backdrop of the vanishing of the unclaimed, open range in the American West.

Robert Duvall

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Yodeler Sues Portal Over Trademark Cry

Yahoooooo!

Wylie Gustafson, whose Yahoo yodel captured the freewheeling spirit of the popular Internet portal in TV and radio ads, has filed a $5 million lawsuit, claiming he has not been paid for the continued use of his voice.

Gustafson, founder of the Wylie & the Wild West country band, said in a statement on Thursday that he was hired in 1996 to create and record the signature yodel for Yahoo!'s first television commercial.

He was paid $590 for his performance with the understanding his yodel would only be used for that specific commercial, he said. The company never told him his stylized vocal arc would be used in thousands of subsequent commercials, he said.

Yahoooooo!

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Playing 'Bad Santa'

Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton is set to play the title role in "Bad Santa," a Dimension Films comedy targeted for a Christmas 2003 release.

Production will begin July 8, with Terry Zwigoff directing. The "Crumb" documentarian made his dramatic debut on last year's "Ghost World."

"Bad Santa" follows two conmen who go on a road trip to malls dressed as Santa and his elf. Rather than spreading good cheer, the duo's motive is to rob each establishment, a strategy that becomes complicated when they encounter an 8-year-old who teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.

Billy Bob Thornton

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Jumping The Shark?

'The Simpsons'

An eclectic mix of celebrity voices will be on "The Simpsons" over the next few weeks.

Stan Lee, Carmen Electra, Reese Witherspoon and Dennis Weaver are scheduled to be heard in episodes.

Bart and Lisa become friends with an old movie cowboy voiced by Weaver and help him regain his fame by booking him on Krusty's TV show. In another episode, Stan Lee Helps Bart make a comic strip action figure based on Homer. Witherspoon is the voice of a rich girl who falls for Bart. Carmen Electra appears as a spectator as Homer is sentenced to die in the electric chair.

'The Simpsons'

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Great Link

Broken Pencil

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Best Job In Television

Harry Shearer

Actor Harry Shearer, center, gestures alongside Michael McKean, left, and Christopher Guest while arriving for the premiere of 'This is Spinal Tap,' on Tuesday, Sept.5, 2000. Photo by Michael Caulfield

Actor and satirist Harry Shearer knows that his voice work on "The Simpsons" overshadows everything else he has done, and he's OK with that.

"It's probably the best job in television," he said.

Shearer depicted bass player Derek Smalls in the mock-rock movie "This Is Spinal Tap," was a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" and has appeared in numerous movies.

But he knows that what he is most known for is the voices he supplies to Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders and almost 20 other characters on the FOX TV show.

"People who do social or political satire are rarely among the most celebrated celebrities of their age," Shearer said. "You can't not like the fact that you've been a part of a show that people around the world really, really like. There's nothing wrong with that."

Shearer said he realized the show's universal appeal when the cast traveled to England and Scotland and gave live performances of 'Simpsons' episodes there.

"The audience response was like nothing I've ever seen. It was just overwhelming," he said. "You realize how deeply a part of the cultures of about 60 countries around the world this show has become."

Harry Shearer

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A New Look & Even More Information!

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Ozzy's Dog Stolen?

Missing Pipi

Somebody has apparently filched Pipi, the black Pomeranian pup featured on MTV's smash hit, "The Osbournes."

"It's been about a month now. We think someone's taken her," Osbourne matriarch Sharon Osbourne told a shocked studio audience on Wednesday's "Live with Regis & Kelly."

"We'd give a reward - anything for Pipi," she said, drawing oohs from the "Live" audience.

Pipi, a family favorite, is one of several dogs of different breeds (Japanese Chin, Bulldog) inhabiting the Beverly Hills mansion of heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his family - whose everyday lives have been turned into one of the highest rated shows in MTV history.

The dogs frequently urinate and defecate in the house and have been the bane of Ozzy - who frequently complains about the hounds ruining his home.

Missing Pipi

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Smart Web Site

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15 Minutes Up Yet?

Rosie O'Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell reveals details of her unusual relationship with a viewer who had a multiple personality disorder in the second of her two-part interview with Diane Sawyer airing tonight.

O'Donnell says she sheltered a woman who had contacted her, claiming her 14-year-old daughter had been attacked and impregnated by her minister.

There was only one problem - the woman, who lived in a trailer in Oregon, didn't have a daughter.

"I have a very soft spot for kids who are in trouble or in pain," O'Donnell says. "And it was a mother calling for her daughter. And so when I saw this mother caring about her daughter in the way she did, it hooked me in some way."

Rosie O'Donnell

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Limo Accident

Marv & Mike

Sportscasters Marv Albert and Mike Fratello were injured early on Thursday when their limousine slammed into the back of a disabled truck on a New Jersey highway, police said.

Albert, 60, and Fratello, 55, both suffered facial cuts. Albert also had a concussion and was admitted to Helene Fuld Medical Center in Trenton for observation and was in good condition. Fratello, a former NBA coach, was treated at the same facility and released within hours.

The sportscasters covered Wednesday night's NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the Philadelphia 76ers in Indianapolis for AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Turner Sports, and then boarded the Sixers' charter jet for Philadelphia where they met their limousine.

They were traveling to New York on Interstate 295 when the limousine came upon the delivery truck, which had broken down in the right-hand traffic lane, police said. Two occupants of the truck escaped injury.

NBC Sports said Albert would not call its opening NBA playoff games on Saturday and Sunday. The games will instead be covered by Tom Hammond and Bob Costas. Fratello also would miss his scheduled appearance on NBC's pre-game studio shows.

Marv & Mike

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No Conflict Of Interest Here

Michael & Colin Powell

POWELL POWER: 'MY DAD WAS ON THE BOARD, I APPROVED THE MERGER'

Back when the stock was riding high and the smell of merger was sweet as NASDAQ, Federal Communications Commission member Michael Powell found no conflict in voting on the largest media marriage in history, between AOL and TIMEWARNER -- even though his father, Colin, sat on the board of the online leader!

Michael insisted that the FCC needed to tread carefully before disqualifying any commissioner's participation in a vote just because of some "fuzzy" connection.

"If I let people lightly connect us, where I know there is no connection, I might as well get out of government," said Michael, now chairman.

Powell vision.

Michael & Colin Powell

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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They're Not G.I. Joe

'Our Hero'???

Action figures of President George W. Bush and Islamic militant Osama bin Laden are part of a group of new action figure designs by Herobuilders

A Connecticut toy maker is selling "life-like action figures" based on major figures tied to the Sept. 11 attacks, including President Bush, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The company, Herobuilders.com, identifies the dolls on its Web site for legal reasons as "Our Hero," "The Rock" and "The Ally," respectively.

And because collectors began demanding an adversary, the company added a fourth doll to the line -- Saudi-born extremist Osama bin Laden.

Vicale said he may discontinue his slow-selling "Gumby" dolls, which sell for $19.95 apiece. These also bear likenesses of bin Laden, Blair, Bush and Giuliani, and are modeled after the green putty-like animated character.

Vicale also owns BBC Design Group, which engineers products using three-dimensional digital technology. He said he bought the former Toybuilders.com, which made custom toys using 3-D technology last September -- after Sept. 11, although negotiations began earlier.

'Our Hero'???

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Better 'Uncle Eddie' Than 'Uncle Ernie'

Paul & Yoko

Yoko Ono probably won't be in the audience when Paul McCartney plays the Garden next week — unless, that is, she buys her own ticket.

"We're not friends," McCartney said when an interviewer asked him a few days ago whether he would invite Ono to the New York stop on his 19-city tour.

"Everyone has a family, and sometimes your Uncle Eddie is not your greatest friend. It's like that with us. [Too many] things have gone down in the past for that to happen.

Asked for her reaction, Ono told us through her spokesman, "Bless him. He is still family. I wish him great success on his concert."

Paul & Yoko

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Ketchup & The Prime Minister

Lionel Jospin



French Prime Minister and socialist presidential candidate Lionel Jospin receives tomato ketchup in the face as he arrives at a campaign rally in Rennes April 17, 2002. Jospin is running against main competitior Conservative incumbent Chirac in the two-round presidential elections set for April 21 and May 5.
Photo by Philippe Desmazes

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Inspired By William Shatner

Mira Sorvino

Mira Sorvino found inspiration in the oddest place when she wanted to play a woman disguised as a man in "The Triumph of Love" — William Shatner.

"I watched a lot of old episodes of 'Star Trek,'" Sorvino told us this week. "I know that might sound crazy and only I can see it, but [Shatner's] macho, over-the-top bravura really inspired my portrayal of Phocion, who doesn't take no for an answer. He's like the way Capt. Kirk is on an alien planet… he has an affair with every alien person he sees. Phocion is that same macho spirit."

Mira Sorvino

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But, Viewers Aren't Interested In Commercials, Either!

Disappearing Credits

A television industry trade group is speaking out against the disappearance of credits at the end of TV shows.

The listings that traditionally conclude shows have been sped up and shrunken over the past decade to where they are frequently illegible, and now the 11 Discovery-owned cable channels plan to eliminate them entirely.

But the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences board voted unanimously Wednesday night to urge networks not to get rid of them.

Discovery Communications, whose cable channels include Discovery, the Travel Channel, TLC, Animal Planet and BBC America, has said it's likely to eliminate end credits within the next month. Discovery says it will direct viewers who want to see them to a Web site.

Discovery, and other networks that have de-emphasized credits, say viewers aren't interested and see them as an excuse to change the channel.

But, Viewers Aren't Interested In Commercials, Either!

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Not A Libelous Term (The Predominance Of Judges Are Men)

'Skank'

It may not be OK to be a skank but legally it is OK to be called one.

A California state appeals court has ruled it is not libel to call someone a "skank" or even a "big skank" on the radio -- describing the word as "a derogatory slang term of recent vintage that has no generally recognized meaning."

The state's 1st Court of Appeals, ruling in a case stemming from the show "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire," found that participants in the program "voluntarily subjected themselves to inevitable scrutiny and potential ridicule by the public and the media."

A contestant, one of 50 women who competed to marry a multimillionaire on the Fox television program, sued two morning disc-jockeys at a San Francisco radio station after they called her a "local loser," a "chicken-butt" and a skank" for declining their invitation to appear on their show.

The appeals court also rejected the plaintiff's claim that she was libeled, saying there was no way to prove that the disc jockeys had knowingly perpetrated a falsehood by describing her as a "local loser," a "chicken butt" and a "big skank."

The plaintiff's lawyer, Christopher Dolan, had argued that the term "skank" was widely understood to be derogatory, pointing to definitions such as that in the American Heritage Dictionary, which defines the word as "One who is disgustingly foul or filthy and often considered sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman or girl."

'Skank'


Hope if these boys are ever fortunate enough to spawn that they only have daughters.

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Conference Opened Thursday In San Francisco

NORML

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is holding its annual conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the city through Saturday.

Featured speakers will include San Francisco D-A Terence Hallinan, state Sen. John Vasconcellos and defense attorney Tony Serra.

NORML In San Francisco

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Scholarship Fund Set Up

Robert Urich

A scholarship fund will be established at Park City High School in the name of Robert Urich.

For most of the 1990s, he split his time between Los Angeles and a sprawling home in Deer Valley.

Urich and his wife, Heather Menzies, were active in the Utah arts community, raising money to help build the 1,200-seat Eccles Performing Arts Center at Park City High School.

The Urichs organized a celebrity ski event and were the hosts of fund-raising dinners at their home, she said. "He was very generous with his time."

Robert Urich

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In Memory

Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer who crossed the Pacific on a balsa log raft and chronicled his harrowing 101-day voyage in the book "Kon-Tiki," died Thursday. He was 87.

Heyerdahl stopped taking food, water or medication in early April after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.

Experts scoffed at Heyerdahl when he set off to cross the Pacific aboard a balsa raft in 1947, saying it would get water logged and sink within days.

After 4,900 miles, he proved them wrong by reaching Polynesia from Peru in a bid to prove his theories of human migration.

His later expeditions included voyages aboard the reed rafts Ra, Ra II and Tigris. His wide-ranging archaeological studies were often controversial and challenged accepted views.

After Heyerdahl's 1947 voyage, conventional anthropologists dismissed the college dropout's theories, saying they were only the work of a gifted amateur. But he gained worldwide fame. His book sold tens of millions of copies and his 1951 movie about the voyage won an Academy Award for best documentary.

His later studies focused on ancient step pyramids - including those in Peru and on the island of Tenerife off Africa - which he believed could be evidence of maritime links between ancient civilizations.

Before Heyerdahl made his voyage on the Kon-Tiki, he was deathly afraid of water. He had nearly drowned twice as a child in Larvik, Norway, and overcame his fear only at age 22, when he fell into a raging river in Tahiti and swam to safety.

Thor Heyerdahl

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In Memory

James Al Hendrix

James Al Hendrix, father of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, died Wednesday after a long battle with congestive heart failure. He was 82.

The elder Hendrix was chairman of the board of Experience Hendrix, a family company centered on his son's legacy and headed by his daughter, Janie L. Hendrix.

In 1999, Hendrix wrote "My Son Jimi," a book about his oldest son, a 1960s music icon who died at age 27 from a drug overdose in 1970.

Steeped in the blues recordings of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and others favored by his father, Jimi Hendrix taught himself to play an old ukulele his father had given him. The guitar followed.

The elder Hendrix, the youngest of four children born to a pair of vaudeville actors, grew up mostly in Canada. He dropped out of school to go to work after his father died in the mid-1930s, came to Seattle around 1940 and stayed after winning a Golden Gloves boxing tournament.

James Al Hendrix also worked as a plumber, electrician and gardener before retiring because of poor health in 1979.

James Al Hendrix

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'The Osbournes'

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