'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
from Alex
'Stuff'
Read all about it, FAUX news is upset at a little website:
Quote:
"We demand that you immediately cease displaying and selling merchandise on the Website. Fox is
particularly concerned that its intellectual property not be used in a manner that will likely
lead to the impairment of the goodwill represented by the name 'Fox News Channel"
HAHAHAHAHA...goodwill...Fox News Channel....oh that's good! Who writes for them?
And here's the site in question.
Alex
Thanks, Alex!
Wonder if it'll 'impair' those special family values embraced by Faux (i.e. 'Married By America', 'Parasite Hotel', and 'Anything For Lu$t'), too?
OTOH, at least they haven't had Shepherd Smith demonstrate parallel parking - yet.
40 Years Ago Yesterday
Re: JFK 'I am a Jelly Doughnut'
As a kid who grew up in a
staunch conservative household and didn't begin to see the liberal light
until rooming with a liberal at college, I can't help but get a little
sentimental on occasions like this, and found that the literal translation
of "Ich bin ein Berliner" as told by a German, is even better than I thought.
After a google search I found this link to the JFK "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech at the Rudolph Wilde Platz, 6-26-63.
Maybe in the spirit of JFK we can get Shrub to go to Germany and retrace
the steps of the Beatles in Hamburg. Then in really crappy German he can
try to say "As a small child at heart, I am a citizen of Hamburg." That
can come out something like "Ich bin ein hamburger und fries."
Ray M.
Thanks, Ray!
JFK, Berlin & the world not hating America - 3 fond memories from my youth.
I think I recall that 'French Fries' are called 'Pommes Frittes' (sp?) in Germany - which loosely translated to 'earth apples'(?).
In my backwoods upbringing, fresh cow pattys are referred to as 'earth apples'.....hmmmmm, seems even more appropriate
Actor, Seeks Work
Salah Salea
'Hello my Name is * Salah Salea * I'm an Actor and SAG member I am from ( IRAQ-BAHGDAD )', is how the note started.
Selected Saturday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
Big 5 Networks
Fall TV Schedules
If you're curious about the networks' plans for the fall, here are their projected fall schedules:
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
With no 'June Gloom', it was a rather toasty day - but, the coastal breeze picked up just before supper, helping to justifying the mortgage.
Did the Farmer's Market/CostCo loop. Cherries are starting to look a bit droopy, but fresh figs made an appearance - and the apricots are huge!
One of the 'hot' new shows for NBC this fall is 'Coupling'. If you have BBC America, tonight you can see the show it's ripped off from (and kindly pardon the dangling participle).
Tonight, Friday, CBS opens the evening with a FRESH (but still creepy) 'Baby Bob', followed by a RERUN 'Hack', and then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave is Kristanna Loken with guest host Jimmy Fallon. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Jerry Springer, Sofia Milos, and Blu Cantrell. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
NBC starts the evening with a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan', followed by 'Dateline', and then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Johnny Depp and Ricky Martin. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Reese Witherspoon and Gang Starr. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Tom Green, Magic Johnson, Ben Harper, and Jack Johnson. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
ABC begins the evening with a RERUN 'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH (but cancelled) 'Whose Line', then another
FRESH (but cancelled) 'Whose Line', followed by '20/20'
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Donal Logue and Liz Phair, with this week's guest co-host David Cross. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
The WB offers a RERUN 'Reba', followed by a RERUN 'What I Like About You', then another RERUN 'Reba', followed by
a RERUN 'Grounded For Life'.
Faux airs the pre-taped (6 June) 'Essence Awards'.
UPN has the movie 'The Crow: Salvation'.
Check local PBS listings for the BEST SHOW ON TV - 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
A&E has the movie 'Fatal Attraction', followed by 'Justice', and then a RERUN 'Third Watch'.
AMC offers the movie 'Castle Keep', followed by the movie 'Platoon', and then the movie 'Young Guns'.
BBC -
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Milton Keynes;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Edinburgh;
[8pm] 'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[8:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Patsy;
[9pm] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[9:40pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 2;
[10:20pm] 'The League of Gentlemen' - The Lesbian and the Monkey;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Rupert Everett;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Dustin Hoffman*;
[12am] 'The Office' - Episode 3 ;
[12:40am] 'Manchild' - Episode 2;
[1:20am] 'The League of Gentlemen' - The Lesbian and the Monkey;
[2am] 'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom ;
[2:40am] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Patsy;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Rupert Everett; and
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Dustin Hoffman*. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Fame', followed by the movie 'Les Miserables' (with Liam Neeson).
History offers 'Modern Marvels', followed by 'Greatest Raids', then 'Heavy Metal, followed by more 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'Tremors: The Series', followed by 'Stargate SG-1', and then a couple of 'Scare Tactic's.
TCM offers a weekend heavy with tributes to Ray Harryhausen, an avatar of special effects.
Friday's schedule:
[6am] 'Penguin Pool Murder' (1932);
[7:15am] 'Murder on a Bridle Path' (1936);
[8:30am] 'You Can't Get Away With Murder' (1939);
[10am] 'Murder In The Air' (1940);
[11am] 'Murder On The Waterfront' (1943);
[12pm] 'Love Finds Andy Hardy' (1938);
[1:45pm] 'Ziegfeld Girl' (1941);
[4pm] 'Days of Wine and Roses' (1962);
[6pm] 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' (1956);
[8pm] 'The Harryhausen Chronicles' (1997);
[9:15pm] 'The Tortoise and the Hare' (2002);
[9:30pm] 'Mighty Joe Young' (1949);
[11:15pm] 'The Harryhausen Chronicles' (1997);
[12:30am] 'The Tortoise and the Hare' (2002);
[12:45am] 'Mysterious Island' (1961);
[2:30am] 'Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers' (1956);
[4am] 'The Invisible Boy' (1957); and
[5:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #17' (1999). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Robbie Robertson poses with his star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario on Wednesday June 25, 2003.
Photo by Frank Gunn
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
BBC Show Rapped Over Joke
* Dustin Hoffman
Camp comic Graham Norton's nightly talk show has been rapped by the broadcasting watchdog after Hollywood star Dustin Hoffman told a joke that contained an off-color word.
The Broadcasting Standards Commission said on Thursday the four letter word beginning with the letter "c" should have been edited out.
The standards watchdog, which responded to a viewer complaint about swearing, took the view that the word had potential for serious offence and that its use "had crossed acceptable boundaries."
Television station Channel Four had argued in its defense that the offending word had been left in the broadcast because Hoffman's joke relied on it for the punchline.
The watchdog has no power to fine or sanction broadcasters.
Dustin Hoffman
If you have 'BBC-America', this show airs tonight! Scroll up for times.
Targeted With Death Threats
Bono
U2 frontman Bono has tightened the security around him after being sent death threats in the mail. Twenty-four letters containing the threats, as well as racial insults and foul language, have been sent from London to Bono's management company in Dublin, Ireland, over the past two years.
The letters make reference to Bono's ongoing work in Africa against international debt, famine, and AIDS, according to the U.K. newspaper, the Sunday Mirror.
Among the threats in the letters are, "You have been warned and you and your do-gooder friends had better watch out. F--k the foreigners and help your own people," and, "If this carries on you will end up in a box."
Bono has been advised of the problem, but the newspaper quotes a friend who says, "He is a key player in the campaign to end Third World debt, and will not be silenced by death threats."
Bono
Brings Anti-War Message to the Blues
Robert Cray
Blues artists tend to sing about lost love, cheatin' love or just the simple love of booze, dogs, traveling the road, whatever.
The music has rarely been political, even though it sprang from the suffering of blacks under slavery and was a virtual soundtrack to the tumultuous civil rights era of the 1960's.
Rock and folk have rich traditions of political songs and even R&B and soul spawned memorable hits about serious subjects during the Vietnam War years, like Edwin Starr's "War (What Is It Good For?) and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?"
Bluesman Robert Cray introduces those modern-day issues in his latest album, "Time Will Tell." (Sanctuary Records; July 1)
"You take a little schoolboy/And tell him who to hate/Then you send him to the desert/For the oil near Kuwait," he sings in "Survivor." The song ends with the sound of marching boots and the admonition: "You've got to choose."
"'Survivor' started out as a song about being happy to still be here," Cray, who has been recording since 1974, told Reuters recently. "But then it became a reflection of where I am now. The last verse was about the state of what's going on, which I disagree with.
Robert Cray
A visitor to the new Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn., watches a video of the late singer, Thursday, June 26, 2003. The museum contains paintings, magazine covers, album covers and photographs and is connected to Garland's restored home.
Photo by Jim Mone
World's Biggest Outdoor Music Festival
Glastonbury
The partying at Glastonbury does not start until Friday, but that has not stopped thousands of fans from descending on the site of the world's biggest outdoor music festival.
More than 15,000 people were setting up camp on Glastonbury organizer Michael Eavis' dairy farm, with a total of 150,000 expected by the weekend when the 13-stage event gets rolling in earnest.
Radiohead, REM, Manic Street Preachers and Moby are among the acts headlining the festival, which takes place every summer in the rolling fields of Somerset in the west of England.
Tickets for this year's Glastonbury festival sold out just 18 hours after they went on sale in April, with touts on the Internet reselling them for four times their price of 105 pounds (150 euros, 175 dollars).
Glastonbury
Says Daddy Thinks He Has A Hard Job
Michael Powell
Final versions of rules governing media ownership and phone competition will probably be released on Monday, FCC Chairman Michael Powell said.
The Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission eased decades-old restrictions on ownership of newspapers and television and radio stations on June 2 with a 3-2 party-line vote. The release of the finished media rules is expected to trigger a response from lawmakers who have vowed to fight the measures with a variety of congressional actions.
Powell said Wednesday that if Congress wants to change the way the FCC reviews media ownership, "I don't have any problem with that." He said the FCC acted based on existing laws and court decisions.
Lawmakers, including Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., have said that after the FCC releases the finished rules, they will introduce a little-used "resolution of disapproval" to reverse the FCC decision. That measure would need majority approval in the Senate and House and the president's signature.
Powell, son of Secretary of State Colin Powell, said being the head of the FCC is "the only job in Washington my dad thinks is harder than his."
Michael Powell
New Album On The Way
Pete Townshend
The Who's Pete Townshend will release another live album as part of his "Signature" series within the next few weeks.
According to the artist's official Web site (http://www.petetownshend.com), the album is taken from an August 1993 concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The show featured Townshend performing his "Psychoderelict" album in its entirety, as well as such favorites as "Face the Face," "Behind Blue Eyes," "Magic Bus" and "The Kids Are Alright." An MP3 of "English Boy" is available for download from the site.
Pete Townshend
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Discusses Son's Addiction
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne said she blamed herself for her son's alcohol and marijuana abuse.
Jack Osbourne, the 17-year-old son of Sharon and heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne, returned home after two months in rehab on June 18. He entered a Pasadena, Calif., hospital on April 23, saying he "got carried away with drugs and alcohol."
"The first thing I did was put blame on myself — and in a way I always will," Sharon Osbourne, 50, told Us Weekly magazine for its July 14 issue. "It's a natural reaction of a mother to think, 'What could I have done differently? What could I have done wrong?' I thought I was a cutting-edge mom, and I didn't even know what was happening."
Sharon Osbourne
A tribal woman holds the idol of Hindu God Lord Shiva during a re-conversion ceremony at Paraswani village, 120 kilometers (75 miles) from Raipur, capital of central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Tuesday, June 24, 2003. Approximately 150 families who had been converted to Christianity by missionaries were reconverted to Hinduism by the Hindu organization ÔDharam Jagran ManchÕ.
Photo by Prakash Hatvalne
Shoes Seem To Be On The Menu
Tucker 'Bowtie' Carlson
Armed Guards Spark Investigation
Snoop Dogg
State officials will investigate off-duty employment of all state workers after three parole agents were found to be part of Snoop Dogg's armed entourage at the BET Awards.
The three state parole agents were reassigned to desk jobs pending the investigation, Corrections Department spokesman Russ Heimerich said Thursday.
While the Corrections Department does not have a specific policy barring outside employment connected to people with criminal records, parole agents are required to tell their bosses about whom they work for and if there is any knowledge of criminal conduct.
Heimerich said one of the agents involved in Tuesday's incident ran a security firm in his off time. He said the department was investigating whether the agent had told his supervisor that clients included Snoop Dogg or other felons. Heimerich earlier said the agent had done so.
Snoop Dogg, whose given name is Calvin Broadus, was not detained. He was convicted in 1990 of possession of cocaine for sale. Under federal law, it's illegal for a felon to possess guns or ammunition. It also is against the law for someone knowingly employed by a felon to carry a gun or ammunition.
Snoop Dogg
Open Art Exhibition By Islamic Women
2 Queens
Queens Rania of Jordan and Sofia of Spain opened an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain, showing paintings by female artists from 22 Islamic countries.
The exhibition -- called "Beyond Frontiers, Female Artists of the Islamic World" -- brings together some 50 pictures from the Royal Jordanian Society of Fine Arts to the eastern Spanish city.
According to the Jordanian Princess Widjan Ali, who is the exhibition's curator, the show aims to develop a cultural dialogue and mutual respect between various cultures and Islam, in the wake of the suicide attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001.
2 Queens
Names Vegas Resort for Himself
Steve Wynn
Casino entrepreneur Steve Wynn has made the practical decision of renaming a $2.4 billion Las Vegas luxury resort for himself, banishing an earlier dream label for the project now being built.
An assistant to Wynn confirmed on Thursday that the mogul had changed the name of the hotel from "Le Reve," French for "The Dream" and the title of a painting by Pablo Picasso at the center of Wynn's highly regarded art collection.
The new name of the Las Vegas resort, which promises the most luxurious accommodations in the desert gambling city, will be "Wynn Las Vegas," and a casino in Macau, China, that Wynn's company, Wynn Resorts Ltd., is developing will be called "Wynn Macau."
The company said earlier this week it had decided the name "Wynn" would be used as a global brand for the company, which also two weeks ago struck an alliance with Monaco casino operator Societe Des Bains de Mer .
Wynn is credited with reshaping the Las Vegas Strip and ushering in the era of the mega-resort with the construction of The Mirage and Bellagio. Those properties are now owned by MGM Mirage.
Steve Wynn
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Deep Purple Album
'Bananas'
Deep Purple fans are going bananas over the title of the new album. Guitarist Steve Morse writes on his web site the album is titled "Bananas." He says some deep-rooted fans are up in arms and are actually asking for them to change the title.
He says the title comes from Ian Gillan commenting in his proper English accent that Morse had gone bananas with an instrumental exchange with keyboardist Don Airey. Morse says anything that makes the band laugh usually sticks. However, Morse says Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover claims the title came from a photo of a skinny guy riding a bike loaded with hundreds of bananas they thought was funny.
Either way, Morse says everyone in the group is happy with the album as it has a variety of material on it and two guitar oriented instrumentals. Morse is also pleased that reviewers have been receiving the new album well so far. "Bananas" is due in August.
'Bananas'
A NASA montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft. Included are, from top to bottom: Mercury, Venus, Earth and its moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
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Under Inquiry for Lobbying
Russell Simmons
Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons is under investigation for aggressive lobbying efforts to convince politicians to repeal New York's harsh drug laws, officials said on Wednesday.
The commission is looking into whether Simmons and others, including former Clinton cabinet secretary Andrew Cuomo and former gubernatorial candidate Thomas Golisano, spent more than $2,000 to influence state officials.
Anyone spending over $2,000 to lobby the state government must register with the commission and make periodic financial disclosures.
Simmons is part of a coalition that has been working to convince New York's state legislature to relax the so-called Rockefeller drug laws.
Russell Simmons
Opera Returns With 'Carmen'
Baths of Caracalla
Rome's opera will return to the imposing ruins of the Baths of Caracalla next month with a performance of Bizet's "Carmen," 10 years after operas were last staged there, director Francesco Ernani announced.
The columns of the most splendid baths of ancient Rome provided a backdrop to the open air opera which was a fixture of balmy Roman summers up to 1993.
However, concerned city authorities withdrew permission for the event, worried about the effect its nightly audiences of around 5,000 were having on the fabric of the ruins.
"We're making a trial comeback to this archaeolgoical site without invading it," organisers said. Seating capacity will be limited to 2,000 compared to the previous 5,000.
The last opera performances were Verdi's "Aida" and Puccini's "Turandot" in 1993.
Baths of Caracalla
Pleads Guilty to Battery
Mystikal
Grammy-nominated rapper Mystikal pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he forced his hairstylist to perform sex acts on him and two bodyguards.
Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, had been charged with aggravated rape, which carries a sentence of life in prison if convicted. He agreed to plead guilty to extortion and a sexual battery charge.
He was sentenced to five years probation for extortion and has a Sept. 25 sentencing date for the second charge, sexual battery of the infirmed.
Prosecutor Sue Bernie said Tyler confronted his hairdresser in his Baton Rouge apartment last July and accused her of stealing checks from him. Tyler told the woman he would not tell police about the checks if she did something "degrading" for him, Bernie said.
Tyler told her to perform oral sex on him and Leland "Pokie" Ellis, 37, and Vercy "V" Carter, 35, Bernie said. The men videotaped the sex acts, which Bernie said included intercourse.
Tyler's attorney, David Bourland, said his client did not agree with all the allegations, but agreed that sexual battery took place.
Mystikal
Guests Face Brawl Charges
MTV Beach House
Four men who had been visiting MTV's beach house in the Hamptons were arrested during a melee at a nearby club.
The men had been recruited by MTV at a nearby mall to be in the audience for the its "Direct Effect" hip-hop countdown show, and were among a group bused to the network's beach house in East Quogue, police said.
A group of the recruits left the beach house and went to the nearby Summers Beach Club, where police said they became "aggressive and confrontational" with staff and other patrons.
Police said two people were hurt in the Tuesday afternoon brawl. One was taken to a nearby hospital, and investigators were searching for the second.
MTV said in a statement that none of its employees were involved in the brawling and that it was cooperating with the police investigation.
MTV Beach House
A Griffon vultures keep an eye over her newborn chick in Limassol zoo, Cyprus on Thursday, June 26, 2003. The endangered species, first ever on the island to be born in captivity, will be released into the wild once it is able to fend for itself.
Photo by Philip Mark
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
Today, the Ark Group is led through the most dangerous sector of Hell yet - Satan's torture chamber.
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