'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Stuntmaster - Reader Contribution
Jarret Reid
Jarret is finishing up a movie in Portland "The Dust Factory" ...
He leaves Friday to shoot a TV production that will air live on Wednesday 8-28....Miss Teen USA Pagent.
No! We didn't get him a sex change. He will be doing a few stunts.
~ Granny C
Thanks, Granny. Love hearing when good stuff happens to great kids!
(My niece's reaction was 'Ohhhhh, who's he?)
Uh-oh, promised I wouldn't embarass her...LOL ; )
Freshly Updated
Rackjite
'' Trent Lott has been reduced to just another Mississippi cracker, Phil
Gramm is retiring, Jesse Helms is retiring, Dickass Armey is retiring,
Bob Barr got creamed. Just this week, the King of Jingo himself, Dana
Rohrabacker found himself in some deep poo for making deals with the
Taliban only months before September 11th. So what stars are left from
the Gingrich Revolution? ''
Rackjite - Home to Roost - 8/21/02
Reader Contribution
Animal Farm Site
from Fred P
This is a great site, devoted to 'Animal Farm', with lots of links & Easter eggs with
an Orwellian theme. Won't be around long, so check it out now!
Animal Farm Manor
Thanks, Fred! This is a great site...will be doing some heavy poking there over the weekend. : )
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Did the Farmer's Market/CostCo run today. Grapes & peaches galore. Figs, too. The Farmer's Market is expanding, and there is now artwork, too.
Have decided that Thursday & Friday are the best days for grazing through CostCo. Had chicken flautas, steak, cream puffs, chocolate cake, fancy fruit juice, and yogurt today.
One of the cats broke my lamp. I like to have the doors & windows open, and my little lamp made it so much easier for my aging eyes.
Saturday, one of my favorite movies is on AMC, but, more of that tomorrow.
Tonight, Friday, CBS bookends a rerun 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' with 2 episodes of '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are John Travolta, Brian Wilson and comic Tom Ryan. (Dave's promo at the end of Thursday's show was covered by a voice over stating Friday's guest was Liz Hurley.)
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Connie Nielsen, Vincent Pastore and Beth Orton.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', and then follows with 2 reruns of 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
On a rerun Jay, the scheduled guests are Will Smith, Roger Ebert & Richard Roeper, and Papa Roach.
On a rerun Conan, the scheduled guests are Tom Arnold, Roger Ebert, Doris Wishman. (Must be Roger Ebert night)
ABC reruns another 'America's Funniest Home Videos', then 2 reruns of 'Whose Line', and top it off with '20/20'.
The WB has 2 reruns of 'Sabrina', then reruns of 'Reba' and 'Raising Dad'.
Faux has 'NFL Preseason' where the Brown Ravens visit the Philly Eagles. On the left coast we will then be treated to reruns of 'King Of The Hill', 'Drew Carey', and the 'Simpsons'.
Local UPN has Ted's Braves visiting Ruppert's Doggers.
AMC has a movie I remember from a Sunday matinee - Hatari! (1962). Also remember a local kid dying trying to replicate riding on the hood of a vehicle, just like John Wayne.
TCM has Destination Moon (1950), which was
one of the first science fiction films to attempt a high level of accurate technical detail telling the story of the first trip to the moon.
It was written by Robert A. Heinlein.
Following it is The Miracle of the Bells (1948), where
granting a final request, a Hollywood press agent takes the body of an actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown for burial. To arouse public interest, and to get the reluctant studio head to release the film, he asks all the local churches to ring their bells for three days. It
stars Fred MacMurray as the press agent and
Frank Sinatra as the priest.
Lastly, it's Les Enfants du Paradis [Children of Paradise] (1945), in the original French, with English subtitles. It's long, it's artsy-fartsy, and it's quite wonderful.
Also, the next-to-the-last Dennis Miller on HBO.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Reader Contribution
Re: 'American Idol'
I'm not that huge a fan of American Idol (Idle?) but I couldn't help
but notice a similarity between one of the contestants and one of "Bart's"
most fearsome enemies!!
~ Carbon42
Thanks, Carbon!
Reader Contribution
'Lord's Gym'
There's a chain of health clubs in Florida, called 'Lord's Gym .'
Their logo is an image that could easily be taken as a drawing of
Jesus doing push-ups under the weight of the cross.
--
~ Elliott
Holy crap, Elliott! And I have problems with the health clubs in this area that have valet parking...Thanks.
Fun Link
from Sharon
Check your philosophical tension quotient(holding of two opposing and
mutually exclusive beliefs):
Check Your PTQ
Reader Comment
Re: Leni Riefenstahl
from Ray
As Tom Paxton sang,
"We didn't know", said the Burgemeister, "about those camps on the edge of
town."
"It was Hitler and his crew that tore the German nation down."
"We saw the cattle cars, it's true, and maybe they carried a Jew or two."
"They woke us up as they rattled through, but what could you expect me to
do?"
That's one verse from the song "We Didn't Know" as recorded by the Mitchell
Trio during the John Denver years.
Thanks, Ray! Rather reminded me of the Tom Lehrer classic 'Werner von Braun (it doesn't matter what side he's on)... ; )
At Cadillac Plant
Robert Plant
Robert Plant, of the rock band Led Zeppelin autographs the hood of a Cadillac CTS at General Motors' headquarters in Detroit, Mich., to help celebrate Cadillac's 100th
birthday, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2002. The band's song "Rock and Roll" is featured in recent Cadillac television advertising. At center right watching is Cadillac General manager Mark LaNeve.
Photo by Blake J. Discher
WNEW Cans 'Em
Opie & Anthony
The New York-based shock jocks, criticized by Catholic groups for broadcasting a live account of a couple allegedly having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral, had their nationally syndicated show canceled Thursday.
"Based on recent events, the Opie and Anthony Show has been canceled, and will be replaced by other programming beginning Friday," WNEW-FM said in a statement.
The station, owned by Infinity Broadcasting, offered no further comment. The pair had been pulled off the airwaves Monday, three days after the stunt was aired.
The cancellation was announced shortly after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell directed the agency's enforcement bureau to investigate the broadcast. The FCC
had been flooded with hundreds of complaints about the show.
It was the second firing in four years for Greg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia. The pair was canned in 1998 by a Massachusetts station after announcing on April Fool's Day that Boston
Mayor Thomas M. Menino was killed in a car crash.
Opie & Anthony
100th Birthday
Leni Riefenstahl
Prosecutors in Frankfurt put a damper on the 100th birthday celebrations of Nazi-era film-maker Leni Riefenstahl Thursday, announcing a probe into her views on gypsy film extras who perished in Nazi death camps.
Riefenstahl, who was born Aug. 22 1902, gained notoriety for the films she made for the Nazis such as "Triumph of the Will," for which she was ostracized after World War II.
Until this year, she never made another film, but spent a remarkably active life arguing she should not be condemned for her Nazi links.
The investigation was sparked after a 76-year-old gypsy alleged Riefenstahl had recently lied about the fate of about 100 gypsies from Nazi camps used as extras in her 1942 film "Tiefland" ("Lowlands"),
by saying that all the gypsies in the film survived the war.
Riefenstahl has issued a statement saying her remarks on their survival had been a misunderstanding and that she regretted the persecution of gypsies during the Nazi period.
In recent years, she has earned a partial rehabilitation in Germany where she had long been shunned, and Thursday the media gave extensive coverage to her birthday.
Riefenstahl will celebrate her 100th birthday at an upscale Bavarian hotel with guests including former tennis champion Boris Becker and performers Siegfried and Roy.
For a lot more, Leni Riefenstahl
Snarky Gossip
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman can get under ex-hubby Tom Cruise's skin - on several continents. The redhead has just signed a deal to be the new face of Spain's top department store, El
Corte Inglés. So from now on, whenever Cruise and his girlfriend Penélope Cruz visit Cruz's native land, Kidman's face will be everywhere, from billboards to TV. One source
told the London Sun: "The fact that Nicole will become an even bigger star in Spain will get up Penélope's nose."
Nicole Kidman
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According To Drudge...
Ozzy PO'd
MTV starrocker John Michael Osbourne [p/k/a Ozzy Osbourne] has issued a dramatic legal threat trying to block an interview set for air on FOX NEWS tonight and tomorrow, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned,
claiming the network conducted the interview with Osbourne under "false" pretenses!
Osbourne's Fifth Avenue lawyers have fired off a legal warning to FOX -- claiming the network will be held to "substantial liability and damages" if the interview airs.
Osbourne claims he agreed to sit with FOX host Greta Van Susteren based on a "representation the interview was to be used, together with interviews by FOX of other public figures, solely in connection
with a television show commemorating the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death."
Osbourne says he "never granted FOX permission to use the interview in any other manner and certainly did not authorize FOX to use it in segments or shows profiling him or his family, as an 'Exclusive.'"
Ozzy PO'd
The 'interview' aired on 'The Pulse' tonight.
Serenaded Activists
Joan Baez
Folk singer Joan Baez delivered a surprise serenade to two environmental activists who have spent months perched in towering redwoods owned by Pacific Lumber Co.
"Air a little thin up there?" Baez shouted to the protesters, who were more than 150 feet above the ground. She then began singing, "Ain't going to let nobody push me around, gonna build a brand-new world."
The two activists are protesting Pacific Lumber's plans to harvest timber in the area. They complain the logging plans threaten old-growth redwood trees and the health of forest ecosystems.
The 61-year-old singer dropped by Monday to offer her support. She made a similar visit to Humboldt County in 1999 to meet Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who spent two years in a redwood she dubbed "Luna."
Joan Baez
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Happy Folks Split Up
Britney Spears
Britney Spears is far from upset over her parents' recent divorce.
"It's the best thing that's ever happened to my family," the pop singer told People magazine for the cover story of its Sept. 2 issue. "My mom and dad, bottom line, do not get
along. When I was a baby, they argued. I wanted this to happen 10 years ago."
Spears' parents — Lynne, 47, and Jamie, 50 — divorced in May after 30 years of marriage.
But the singer describes her own breakup with 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake five months ago as "horrible."
Spears also addresses the criticism she's received as she's gotten older and shed her good-girl image.
"Smoking, drinking, sex — why is it such a big deal with me? As you get to 20, you grow up, you experiment," she said. "You feel more comfortable in your skin."
Britney Spears
Hospital News
Cybill Shepherd
Former "Moonlighting" star Cybill Shepherd is battling a deadly form of skin cancer, according to published reports.
Shepherd, 52, was diagnosed with melanoma on her back after she discovered a "scaly patch" on her back - and within a day had the patch removed, leaving
a "disfiguring" scar that required plastic surgery, The Star is reporting in its Sept. 3 issue.
Sheperd's spokeswoman is downplaying the sensational report.
But, Shepherd's mother, Patty Micci, confirmed the cancer. Melanoma is a deadlier form of skin cancer than squamous-cell and basal-cell cancers, which are more common.
Micci told The Star that Shepherd's skin cancer is likely the result of spending too much time in the sun.
"When Cybill was young, she went out in the sun a lot," she said. "We lived near a lake, and she used to bake in the sun on a dock, applying lots of suntan oil.
"Back then, we had no idea just how damaging the sun's rays could be, so we encouraged our kids to sunbathe."
Cybill Shepherd
Central Point, OR
Signs
Environmentalist Joe Schwartz stands outside Compton Arena in Central Point, Ore., Thursday, Aug., 22, 2002, as he and a handful of protestors gather while resident George W. Bush
speaks inside. Bush proposed a plan making it easier for the timber industry to thin national forests, backing a change in federal rules the White House says will reduce the kind
of devastating fires sweeping the western states this summer.
Photo by Don Ryan
New Form Of Crop Circle?
Larry King
Larry King's familiar image — suspenders and all — has cropped up on a Maine hayfield.
Conceptual artist Daniel Bozhkov created a 300-by-250-foot likeness of the TV interviewer using a 3-by-6-foot piece of quarter-inch plywood to flatten the mixture of timothy
and milkweed growing in an isolated field in central Maine.
Bozhkov, an instructor at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, calls the eerily precise likeness of the CNN talk show host "Learn How to Fly over a Very Large Larry."
He and fellow artist Kathryn Chan spent the past three weeks on the portrait, sometimes working 10 hours a day and rising at 4 a.m. so they could avoid the midday sun.
They used strings, sticks and boards to meticulously plot out King's features before pushing down the vegetation to form the image.
Larry King
Listening To Dead People
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne was the guest of Greta Van Susteren last spring at the White House Correspondents Association gala. Now he's given her a two-part interview, airing tonight on "The Pulse" and
tomorrow on her own Fox News Channel show. "Believe it or not, Ozzy Osbourne is beginning to like Frank Sinatra. So that's a sign of my age," Ozzy confesses. "It wasn't hip or anything when
I was younger to like Frank Sinatra. His body of his work, is so vast - he must have made a record every day . . . my kids come to me and go 'Hey, you're weird, Dad. You only listen to dead people.' "
Ozzy Osbourne
Cast in ABC's 'Dragnet'
Danny Huston
Actor Danny Huston, whose father, John Huston, was best known for directing such film noir classics as "The Maltese Falcon," will star on ABC's upcoming revival of the TV cop show "Dragnet," producers said on Wednesday.
Huston, 40, the half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston, will play the lead character, a Los Angeles police detective, in an updated version of the pioneering police drama from producer Dick Wolf, creator of the long-running NBC
hit series "Law & Order."
Wolf "hasn't decided whether he'll keep the name Joe Friday or change the name just yet," said Neil Schubert, a spokesman for Universal Television Productions, the Vivendi Universal unit producing the new series with Wolf Films.
ABC, the network owned by the Walt Disney Co., has ordered 13 episodes of the new "Dragnet," which is expected to be launched in mid-season next year. Wolf is writing and executive-producing the show.
Production begins next month in Los Angeles, and other cast announcements, including who will play Huston's partner, will come shortly, Universal said.
Danny Huston
BartCop TV!
Desecration To Be Permitted
Hollywood Bowl
A state appellate court ruled that the operators of the Hollywood Bowl can tear down its 73-year-old orchestra shell and build a new one.
On Wednesday, the three-judge panel denied the appeal of preservationists who argued that the bowl's trademark white shell is an essential part of its design. The preservationists believed
that county officials and the bowl's main tenant, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, should find a way to renovate the shell.
The battle over the bowl began two years ago after the county Board of Supervisors approved plans for a new shell. Supervisors said the existing shell was aging and its small size and poor
acoustics prevented orchestra members from hearing each other during performances.
Two preservationist groups sued to stop the plan but a Superior Court judge ruled in April 2001 that the project could go forward. The groups filed an appeal, saying legal descriptions of the
plan were misleading and people who wanted to object to the shell's replacement didn't receive proper notice.
"It's a dangerous set of precedents this would set," said Robert Nudelman, a leader of one of the preservation groups. "We (would) have to fight this fight as other historic buildings get
threatened. The door has just been left open for the bulldozers."
Hollywood Bowl
NBC TV Show Fined
'American Dreams'
Producers of the new fall TV series "American Dreams" will be fined for waking up neighbors with a simulated football game in the middle of the night.
The NBC show was shooting Friday night through Saturday morning at Washington Middle School.
"My wife and I were awakened, along with the surrounding neighborhood, by the amplified sound ... of a football game, including an announcer, a large crowd and a marching band,"
resident David Gooler told the City Council Monday night. "The time was 2:30 a.m."
The producers probably will be fined $1,400, Eric Duyshart, the city's economic development manager, said Wednesday.
The producers paid $9,600 for a permit to film overnight but they never notified the city that they would be using amplified sound or a band, he said.
"American Dreams" is set in early 1960s Philadelphia. Washington Middle School is expected to be a periodic filming location for the show.
'American Dreams'
Serial Philanderer To Aid Shady Businessman
Rudy & Bill
Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani, left, walks with Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bill Simon, after endorsing him at a news conference held
Thursday, Aug. 22, 2002, outside the East Los Angeles Sheriff's Department substation in Los Angeles. In the background a supporter of Democrat
rival Gray Davis holds a sign against Simon.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
Rap Fest Takes Cancelation to Court
Summerfest 2002
The promoters of a hardcore rap music festival that was abruptly canceled this week will ask a federal judge to let the show go on Sunday at a city-owned stadium.
The Summerfest 2002 concert was canceled Tuesday by officials with the Atlantic City Surf baseball team, who sublease Sandcastle Stadium and had booked the show for the
venue. They cited police warnings about the potential for violence at the show featuring rappers N.O.R.E., Styles and Khia.
Mike Daily, an attorney for Platinum Link Entertainment, the show's promoter, said he'd file legal papers Thursday in U.S. District Court in Camden, seeking an emergency hearing on the matter.
Daily said he'd argue that Surf officials violated their contract, citing a 1997 ruling that prohibited the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority from banning a
performance by controversial rocker Marilyn Manson.
Summerfest 2002
Settlement Up To $223 Million
Dena Al Fassi
A member of Saudi Arabia's royal family can be forced to pay $223.3 million in a lawsuit against his brother-in-law, a judge ruled Thursday.
The decision to extend the judgment to include the relative came in a lawsuit filed by famed palimony lawyer Marvin Mitchelson. He said he will ask the court to collect on
the judgment by seizing U.S. homes or other property owned by Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz and other royal family members.
The money also could come from family bank accounts here or from money paid to the U.S. government under Saudi Arabian contracts, Mitchelson said.
Prince Turki is the brother-in-law of Sheik Mohammed Al Fassi, whose separated wife, Dena Al Fassi, was awarded $81.5 million of his fortune in 1983. The sum has grown
through accrued interest.
Sheik Mohammed Al Fassi outraged home owners in Beverly Hills by painting genitalia on Italian marble statues and installing plastic flowers outside his mansion on Sunset
Boulevard. The mansion was destroyed by arson on New Year's Day 1980 while neighbors shouted, "Burn! Burn! Burn!"
In addition to the money, Al Fassi's wife was awarded the destroyed home and the land on which it stood. It has since been sold.
Mitchelson said the suit against the king and country of Saudi Arabia will continue, also seeking to attach their assets for the judgment.
Dena Al Fassi
Found in Plastic Bag
Stolen Titian
A painting by Venetian master Titian, worth more than $7.6 million, has been found in a plastic bag seven years after it was stolen, British newspapers reported on Friday.
The "Rest on the Flight to Egypt" was snatched from Longleat House, the western England stately home of the Marquess of Bath, in 1995.
The masterpiece was recovered in London without a frame in a carrier bag by Charles Hill, a former policeman and now security adviser to the Historic Houses Association, the Guardian newspaper said.
Previous reports suggested a convicted art crook was used as a go-between. Details of the operation were not released.
One of Titian's most famous works, "Rest on the Flight to Egypt" was bought by one of the Marquess of Bath's ancestors in the 19th century.
Stolen Titian
Charges To Be Dropped
Bradley Gumbel
Prosecutors have decided to drop charges against television host Bryant Gumbel's 23-year-old son, who was arrested early Thursday on suspicion that he attempted to steal a purse.
"The matter requires further investigation," said Sherry Hunter, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
Bradley Gumbel was expected to be released early Friday, according to his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman.
The victim was grabbed from behind by a man who also reached for her purse, Sgt. Kevin Hayes said.
Police drove the woman around the neighborhood to see if she could identify her assailant. She pointed out Gumbel, Hayes said.
Brafman said his client was walking home after dropping off a date, and was never involved in any crime.
Bradley Gumbel
Unveils Statue Of Michael Collins
Liam Neeson
Irish film actor Liam Neeson was confined to a supporting role on Thursday when he unveiled a statue to Irish freedom fighter Michael Collins on the 80th anniversary of his assassination.
Thousands of people crowded into the tiny village of Clonakilty, Collins's hometown on the southwest Irish coast, to see the Oscar-nominated actor unveil the seven-foot bronze statue of the man regarded as
one of the main architects of Irish independence from Britain.
"He is my hero," said Neeson, who played Collins in Neil Jordan's 1996 epic of the same name.
"He is still inspiring me. Two years ago when I was recovering from a near-fatal motorbike accident in a New York hospital I often asked myself what would 'Mick' do," Neeson said.
Collins, regarded as the founder of modern guerrilla warfare, was only 32 when he was shot dead in an ambush by rival republicans near his west Cork hometown during the Irish civil war which erupted after the
signing of a treaty with Britain.
For a bit more, Liam Neeson
Six Decades Later
5-Year-Old Mother
Lina Medina's parents thought their 5-year-old daughter had a huge abdominal tumor and when shamans in their remote village in Peru's Andes could find no cure, her father carried her to hospital.
Just over a month later, she gave birth to a boy.
Aged 5 years, 7 months and 21 days old when her child was born by Caesarean section in May 1939, Medina made medical history, and is still the youngest known mother in the world.
At the time, Peru's government promised armfuls of aid that never materialized. Six decades on, Medina lives with her husband in a cramped house in a poor, crime-ridden district of the Peruvian capital known as "Little Chicago."
Now 68, she keeps herself to herself and has long refused requests to rake up the past. Gerardo, the son she delivered while still a child herself, died in 1979 at the age of 40.
But a new book, written by an obstetrician who has been interested in her case, has drawn fresh attention to Medina's story, and raised the prospect that the Peruvian government may belatedly offer her financial and other assistance.
For a pretty interesting read, 5-Year-Old Mother
Quote
Will Rogers
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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