Bartcop Entertainment - Friday, 26 September, 2003

Friday

26 September, 2003

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'Best of TBH Politoons'

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Thanks, again, Tim!

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Reader Reminder

VCR ALERT-Bill Maher 9/26

This Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher" should be incredible! His guest panel will be my favorite documentary director (Michael Moore), my favorite Scotsman (Aaron MacGruder) and my favorite fellow Alabamian (Charles Barkley).

Andy


Thanks, Andy!

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Banned Books Week

20 - 26 September, 2003


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from Mark

Another Bumpersticker

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

AND BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING IDIOT

SUCK A FREEDOM FRY CHIMP BOY

COMPASSIONATE CRUELTY

FREEDOM FRIES AND SOLDIERS DIE

WHERE ARE THE FUCKING WMD?

COMPASSIONATE BODY BAGS

FUCK YOU CHIMP BOY

BERT FOR PRESIDENT

THE ROVE-INATOR

THE PIGS KEEP TRYING TO FLY

ALL GODS SUCK

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

The weather is still fine.

Did the grocery shopping. They're remodeling the store & nothing is where it used to be. I'm the kind of anal retentive who writes out the shopping list in the order the products are encountered, going from the left side of the store to the right.

Another good plan shot to hell.

The kid gets back from science camp today!



Tonight, Friday, CBS starts the night with the Series Premiere, followed by the Season Premiere of 'JAG', then the Series Premiere of 'The Handler'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Joe Pantoliano, Kevin Nealon, and Outkast.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Tom Selleck and the Cure.

NBC opens the night with the Series Premiere of 'Miss Match', followed by 'Dateline', then the Season Premiere of 'Boomtown'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Rosie O'Donnell, Boy George, and Jack Black.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are The Rock and Isaac Mizrahi.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Jason Biggs, Lili Taylor, Damien Rice, Jim Florentine, and Biz Markie.

ABC begins the evening with the Season Premiere of 'George Lopez', followed by the Series Premiere of 'Hope & Faith', then the Season Premiere of 'Bonnie', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Jennifer Garner, Danny Nucci, Daniel Tosh, and Zakk Wylde.

The WB offers a FRESH 'Reba', followed by a FRESH 'Like Family', then a FRESH 'Grounded For Life', followed by a FRESH of 'All About The Andersons'.

Faux has the Season Premiere of 'Wanda', followed by a FRESH 'Luis', then a FRESH 'Boston Pubic'.

UPN here has baseball with Rupert's Doggers visiting the Giants in San Francisco.

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

A&E has 'American Justice', 'Poirot', and 'Meet The Royals'.

AMC offers the movie 'Von Ryan's Express', followed by the movie 'Jaws', then 'Jaws', again.

BBC  -    [6pm] 'BBC World News';    [6:30pm] 'Parkinson' - Sting Special;    [7pm] 'Ground Force' - Leatherhead;    [7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Urmston;    [8pm] 'At Home With The Braithwaites' - Episode 4;    [9pm] 'Coupling' - Inferno;    [9:40pm] 'Coupling' - The Girl with Two Breasts;    [10:20pm] 'Coupling' - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love;    [11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Susan Sarandon/Goldie Hawn;    [11:30pm] - huh? 'So Graham Norton' - Liza Minelli;    [11:30pm] - huh? 'So Graham Norton' - Cybill Shepherd, Cilla Black, Orlando Bloom;    [12am] 'Coupling' - Inferno;    [12:40am] 'Coupling' - The Girl with Two Breasts;    [1:20am] 'Coupling' - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love;    [2am] 'At Home With The Braithwaites' - Episode 4;    [3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Susan Sarandon/Goldie Hawn;    [3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Cybill Shepherd, Cilla Black, Orlando Bloom;    [4am] 'Coupling' - Inferno;    [4:40am] 'Coupling' - The Girl with Two Breasts;  and  [5:20am] 'Coupling' - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love.    (ALL TIMES EDT) [6am] 'BBC World News'

'Coupling' - watch the original. BBC America invites you to enjoy back-to-back episodes from season one on Friday, September 26th. And beginning this week, you can watch Coupling every Thursday at 10 pm/et, 7 pm/pt.


Bravo has 'Inside The Actor's Studio' (voice cast of 'The Simpsons'), 'The Animated Century', and the movie 'Monkeybone'.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Desert War', 'Heavy Metal', and 'Modern Marvels'.

HBO has 'Real Time With Bill Maher'.

SciFi has 'Timecop', 'Tremors: The Series', 'Stargate SG-1', 'Scare Tactic', and another 'Scare Tactic'.

TCM  -  today, 'Blazing Saddles' (1974) is featured!
[6am] 'Jimmy The Gent' (1934);    [7:15am] 'Accidents Will Happen' (1938) [8:30am] 'Code Of The Secret Service' (1939) (Ronald Reagan alert);       [9:30am] 'Tell No Tales' (1939);    [10:45am] 'One Crowded Night' (1940);    [12pm] 'Nine Lives Are Not Enough' (1941) (Ronald Reagan alert);    [1:15pm] 'Shadows On The Stairs' (1941);    [2:30pm] 'Fingers At The Window' (1942);    [4pm] 'Slightly Dangerous' (1943);    [6pm] 'Lady In The Lake' (1946);    [8pm] 'Support Your Local Sheriff' (1969);    [10pm] 'Blazing Saddles' (1974);    [12am] 'Spaceballs' (1987);    [2am] 'Throne of Blood'   [Kumonosu jo]   (1957) (Akira Kurosawa's 'MacBeth');    [4am] 'Appointment in Tokyo' (1946);  and  [5am] 'Desert Victory' (1943).    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Saturday  -  9/27

TCM  -   [6am] 'Plymouth Adventure' (1952);    [8am] 'Beneath The 12-Mile Reef' (1953);    [10am] 'Born To Kill' (1947);    [12pm] 'Cattle King' (1963);    [1:30pm] 'Big House, U.S.A.' (1955);    [3pm] 'Ice Station Zebra' (1968);    [6pm] 'Kim' (1950);    [8pm] 'Boys' Night Out' (1962);    [10pm] 'It Started With A Kiss' (1959);    [12am] 'Lili' (1953);    [1:30am] 'Last Time I Saw Paris' (1954);    [3:30am] 'Don't Go Near The Water' (1957);  and  [5:30 am] 'Festival of Shorts #24' (2000).    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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A Micronesian kingfisher native to Guam perches on a branch in an aviary at the Philadelphia Zoo Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2003. Philadelphia Zoo zoologist Beth Bahner is on Guam with the first three Micronesian kingfishers returned since the birds died out in the wild more than 15 years ago.
Photo by Jacqueline Larma

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The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel

Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

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Good Charlotte Not Worried

'Rock Against Bush'

Good Charlotte is slated to appear on a compilation album titled Rock Against Bush, which is being assembled by Fat Wreck Chords president and NOFX frontman Fat Mike. Good Charlotte, Green Day, Sum 41, and a number of other punk acts will contribute songs to the record as part of a campaign to vote George Bush out of office next year. Good Charlotte guitarist Billy Martin told LAUNCH that the band isn't afraid of the same kind of backlash that hit the Dixie Chicks.

"I mean, we considered that at the same time, you know, but I think that the Dixie Chicks have a little different of a fan base, you know, and sort of a following than we do," Martin said. "And although it's not as completely more appropriate for us to do it, I mean, I think for me personally, it's more of just about...more of like a friendship thing, you know, but I'm gonna go along with it because the rest of my band really wants to do it, and I back whatever everybody wants to do, so it's cool."

The Donnas, Sonic Youth, and others are part of a second organization, called Bands Against Bush, which plans to work for the defeat of the President in 2004. They're looking to stage events across the country on October 11. Meanwhile, Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello is joining singers Billy Bragg and Steve Earle on the politically-themed Tell Us The Truth tour.

'Rock Against Bush'

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Star on Walk of Fame

Anthony Hopkins

Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins, star of the upcoming film "The Human Stain," on Wednesday got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, realizing a dream he first had as a young actor in Wales.

Hopkins, 65, smiled broadly and raised his fists in the air after unveiling his star -- the Walk's 2,237th -- as his wife Stella and his co-stars Jodie Foster, from "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Stain" co-star Gary Sinise, applauded.

Anthony Hopkins

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Harrison Film Premiere

'Concert for George'

The two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, have made a rare joint appearance at the world premiere for a documentary film of last year's concert tribute to their late colleague, George Harrison.

The two former Fab Four musicians were joined at the screening by fellow recording stars Tom Petty, Sheryl Crow and Jeff Lynne, along with Harrison's widow, Olivia, their son, Dhani, and Yoko Ono, the widow of ex-Beatle John Lennon.

The movie, "Concert for George," captures the all-star concert staged last November at London's Royal Albert Hall celebrating the life and music of Harrison a year after he died of cancer at 58. Lennon was shot to death in 1980 by a deranged fan outside his Manhattan apartment building.

Both McCartney and Starr performed at the sell-out benefit concert, as did Petty, Lynne, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston and Harrison's musical mentor, Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.

'Concert for George'

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George W. Bush as King of Diamonds is part of a card deck depicting 'the 52 most dangerous American officials', sold by the French group Reseau Voltaire (Voltaire Network) is seen in this hand out photo. Caption under photograph reads : 'Head of a baseball club and director of Salem bin Laden's oil company (brother of Osama). Designated President of the United States by friends of his father at the Supreme Court before the vote count showed that he lost the elections'. A little over 2, 500 decks have been sold on the internet in recent weeks.
Photo by Reseau Voltaire

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'Green Eggs and Ham' In Latin

"Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!"

"Green Eggs and Ham" is an easy read. After all, the late Theodore Geisel, belovedly known as Dr. Seuss, wrote it after his editor challenged him to do a book in just 50 words.

Retitled "Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!" the Seuss classic has been rendered into Latin by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Inc. of Wauconda, Ill. The target audience is "people who took Latin in school and have fond remembrance of it, teachers and students who take Latin — and, of course, Seuss fans," Kelly Hughes, a spokeswoman for the publisher, said Wednesday.

In English, you get, "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am."

In Latin, you get, "Sum 'Pincerna' nominatus, Famulari ... nunc paratus!"

"Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!" is accompanied by Dr. Seuss' original whimsical drawings. A glossary of Latin-to-English vocabulary and a note on "How to Read These Verses" appear at the back of the book.

"Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!"

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.

American Classical League

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New Billboard Campaign

Writers Guild

Most people would recognize the line "You can't handle the truth!" as spoken by Jack Nicholson in 1992's "A Few Good Men." But who wrote it?

Then there's the two-word phrase, "As if," from 1995's "Clueless," a line that popularized the "Valley Girl" dialect.

And how about the line, "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown," from the 1974 Roman Polanski film, "Chinatown?"

The answers: Nicholson's wrath was penned by Aaron Sorkin; "As if," was the work of Amy Heckerling; and Robert Towne wrote "Chinatown."

A new billboard and advertising campaign to mark the 70th anniversary of the Writers Guild of America seeks to showcase the profession by matching famous movie and TV lines with photos of their authors. The effort is aimed at raising the WGA's profile before it negotiates a new contract with producers.

For the rest, Writers Guild

Writers Guild of America

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Crow, Gray Singing for Charity

Step Up Women's Network

Sheryl Crow, Macy Gray and Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath are among those who will perform at a pair of concerts benefiting the Step Up Women's Network.

Crow, Mya and Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein will play the Oct. 6 event at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. Actress Chloe Sevigny will host that show, which will also include appearances by DJ Mark Ronson and DJ Sky.

The Nov. 15 Los Angeles event at the Avalon Theater will feature McGrath, Gray and the all-star band Camp Freddy. The latter is led by Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and features Billy Morrison (the Cult), Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses), Scott Ford (Twilight Singers) and Donovan Leitch.

The non-profit Step Up Women's Network (http://www.stepupwomensnetwork.org) aims to strengthen community resources for women and girls.

Step Up Women's Network

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To Be Televised in Russia

World Series

The World Series will be televised in Russia for the first time ever this year.

The games next month will be televised by SPORT, an over-the-air network that began broadcasts in June, the commissioner's office said Thursday.

Slava Fetisov, Russia's Minister of Sport, met Thursday with baseball officials, who said they will help develop the sport in Russia by assisting with youth and coaching development.

World Series

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Rose Parade Grand Marshal

John Williams

The theme of the 2004 Rose Parade is "Music, Music, Music," so it was only fitting that composer John Williams should be the grand marshal of the New Year's Day extravaganza.

Williams was named to the honorary post Wednesday by the Tournament of Roses.

Williams has won five Oscars: for the original scores of "Jaws," "Star Wars," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Schindler's List," and for adaptation and original song score on "Fiddler on the Roof." He has received 42 Oscar nominations, making him the most nominated living person, and he is an 18-time Grammy winner.

John Williams

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Tamil folk dancer performs during a show in Ahmedabad, the main city of the western Indian state of Gujarat, September 24, 2003.
Photo by Amit Dave

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Tribute To 'Black Picasso'

Romare Bearden

Dubbed an "African-Amerian Picasso" by admirers, Romare Bearden is now receiving what experts say is long overdue recognition with a retrospective at Washington's National Gallery of Art.

"The Art of Romare Bearden" which opened last week and runs through January 4, includes some 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors and collages from a long career that ended with Bearden's death 15 years ago at the age of 76.

This is only the ninth time in its 60-plus year history that the NGA -- one of the premier US museums -- has devoted a comprehensive retrospective to a single artist, putting Bearden in the select company of the likes of Georgia O'Keefe, Piet Mondrian, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore and Mark Rothko.

For a lot more, Romare Bearden

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Named 'Weekend Today' Anchors

Campbell Brown & Lester Holt

Lester Holt was appointed one-half of the anchor team for NBC's "Weekend Today" show with White House correspondent Campbell Brown, the network announced on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Holt will keep his weekday afternoon newscast on MSNBC — meaning he's scheduled to work seven days a week.

Oh, and he'll continue to be the chief fill-in on the weekday "Today" show whenever Matt Lauer and Ann Curry are away.

Campbell Brown & Lester Holt

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Italian Prince Weds French Starlet

Emanuele Filiberto - Clotilde Courau

Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy's last king, and French actress Clotilde Courau got married Thursday in a star-studded ceremony that brought the center of Rome to a halt.

Courau, who is six-months pregnant with their child, walked down the aisle in a flowing white Valentino dress and a royal tiara as more than 1,300 guests -- including Prince Albert of Monaco and French rocker Johnny Halliday -- looked on.

The wedding in Rome's elite Santa Maria degli Angeli church, designed by Michelangelo, was preceded by a feast of prenuptial publicity and corporate sponsorship.

Emanuele Filiberto - Clotilde Courau

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Formerly 'The Vidiot'

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Seeks Oscar Home Movie Ban

MPAA

Screening tapes--and more recently DVDs--for award-eligible films have been a given for Academy voters for several years. It's been a combo perk/privilege to be able to sit home in bed and decide whether Tom did a better job than Jack, or Gwyneth was more effective than Meryl.

But this year, those who skip out on the showings at their neighborhood multiplex in favor of their home theaters may be SOL. That's because the Motion Picture Association of America is trying to get the major studios to stop mailing out DVD and video screeners, claiming the practice leads to piracy.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which moved up the Oscar ceremony to attempt to regain some of the luster stolen by the numerous other award shows, has declined to comment. The Academy does not supply its membership list to the studios sending out screeners, has always proselytized for films to be seen on the big screen, either in theaters or at arranged studio screenings, and has, in its never-ending effort to halt excessive campaigning, managed to curtail the elaborate packaging and accompanying gift books that at one time accompanied the screeners.

MPAA

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The world's largest, longest, and tallest transatlantic liner Queen Mary II leaves its dock at the Alstom shipyards in St Nazaire, western France, September 25, 2003 for a three-day engine test in the Atlantic ocean. The ship is scheduled to embark on her maiden voyage in January 2004 for a 15-day cruise from Southampton, England to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Photo by Daniel Joubert

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Nonprofit Group to Buy

Cypress Gardens

Cypress Gardens, a venerable but recently closed Florida tourist attraction famous for water skiers and Southern belles, is set to be bought by a nonprofit environmental group in a $22 million deal that would save the park from immediate dissection.

The group hopes to sell the property to another buyer which would reopen the park's extensive botanical and historic exhibits to visitors, said Public Land spokeswoman Anne Nelson. Potential buyers have already discussed several options, including adding amusement park rides and turning the site into a historical park.

Florida's first major tourist attraction, Cypress Gardens became a popular travel destination following World War II as tourists streamed into the botanical and water ski park made famous by entertainers Esther Williams and Elvis Presley and other celebrities of the kitsch-laden '50s and '60s.

Cypress Gardens

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Sues French Cosmetics Company

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court that seeks $15 million from the cosmetics firm Caudalie for running an ad campaign that says the "Chicago" Oscar-winner "was spotted buying the complete Caudalie range of skincare" and had used the company's anti-aging spa in Las Vegas.

Her lawsuit states that she has never purchased such products, nor did she receive services from the spa and claims the company had no right to use her name in promotions.

The star of "Entrapment" and the upcoming comedy "Intolerable Cruelty" currently has an exclusive deal to promote Elizabeth Arden cosmetics.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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Closes North American Plants

Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss, the iconic jeans brand that has been worn by generations of Americans, on Thursday announced plans to close its four remaining North American manufacturing and finishing plants, with the loss of almost 2,000 jobs.

Levi Strauss said it would close its San Antonio operations by the end of the year and its three Canadian facilities by March 2004 and shift production to its global sourcing network.

Over several years of restructuring, the company has closed six US factories and two in Europe and shifted most of its production to Asia and Latin America.

Levi Strauss

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Top 15 Programs

Basic Cable Networks

Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Sept. 15-21. Each ratings point represents 1,067,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.

 1. NFL Football: Buffalo vs. Miami (Sunday, 8:28 p.m.), ESPN, 7.3, 7.86 million homes.
 2. "NFL Prime Time" (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.), ESPN, 3.4, 3.72 million homes.
 3. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.2, 3.48 million homes.
 4. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.0, 3.26 million homes.
 5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 2.7, 2.95 million homes.
 6. (tie) "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.9 million homes.
 6. (tie) "Sportscenter" (Sunday, 11:34 p.m.), ESPN, 2.7, 2.9 million homes.
 8. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.89 million homes.
 9. "Law & Order" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), TNT, 2.6, 2.8 million homes.
10. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.72 million homes.
11. "Law & Order" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.5, 2.66 million homes.
12. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.54 million homes.
13. "Nip-Tuck" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), FX, 2.3, 2.52 million homes.
14. "Trading Spaces" (Saturday, 9 p.m.), TLC, 2.3, 2.46 million homes.
15. Movie: "I Know What You Did" (Sunday, 3 p.m.), Lifetime, 2.3, 2.46 million homes.

Basic Cable Networks

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Planned for Nov. 12

Johnny Cash Memorial

A public memorial service for Johnny Cash is set for Nov. 12 at the Ryman Auditorium, where the country music legend hosted a prime-time network television show more than 30 years ago.

Details about who will take part in the service are expected to be announced in the next several weeks.

The memorial will be open to the public. Tickets will be free.

Johnny Cash Memorial

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In Memory

Hideko Arima

Hideko Arima, known as Japan's oldest bar "mama", died of heart failure at the age of 101 after running a tiny watering hole for half a century in Tokyo's glitzy Ginza district.

She held court from the same stool at the end of the counter at the Gilbey A, for 52 years until six days ago when, braving a sudden illness, she spent what would be her last day there.

"She was taken ill at her apartment last Friday but dared to come, saying she could rather cheer herself up at the bar," said Gilbey A bartender Fukuichi Nakagawa, 53.

"She was pale but her face turned rosy when the patrons strolled in. She kept talking as usual but she did not order her favourite beer. She just had a few glasses of juice," Nakagawa told AFP.

But Arima collapsed as soon as she left the 30-seat bar in a pre-war wooden building, the last vestige of old Tokyo in the heart of Ginza's ever-changing cityscape, preserved by its landlord for his long-term tenant.

Arima turned 101 last May and amid the publicity attracted a new generation of women customers, as well as male regulars whom she has known since their youth.

They included politicians and novelists such as Shusaku Endo author of "Silence (1966)", a best-selling study of the persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th century.

Arima had lived alone since her husband died four decades ago. Her only son succumbed to a cancer in 1986 and his wife died two years later, leaving behind three grandchildren.

Hideko Arima

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In Memory

Herb Gardner

Herb Gardner, author of such hit Broadway comedies as "A Thousand Clowns" and the Tony-winning "I'm Not Rappaport," died Wednesday of lung disease. He was 68.

Gardner had his first Broadway success in 1962 with "A Thousand Clowns," which starred Jason Robards and Sandy Dennis. It told the story of a nonconformist television writer who battled adoption authorities over custody of his young nephew. "Clowns" was later made into a movie starring Robards and Barbara Harris.

"I'm Not Rappaport" starred Judd Hirsch and Cleavon Little as two elderly men who met daily in Central Park. It was Gardner's biggest commercial success and won the best-play Tony Award in 1986.

Among his other Broadway plays were "The Goodbye People" (1968), "Thieves" (1974) and "Conversations with My Father" (1992).

Gardner also produced and wrote the screenplay and the 1971 Dustin Hoffman film, "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying All Those Terrible Things About Me?"

Herb Gardner

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In Memory

Edward Said

Columbia University literary scholar Edward W. Said, the nation's foremost Arab intellectual and advocate for the Palestinian cause, has died after a bout with leukemia. He was 67.

Said was a leading member of the Palestinian parliament-in-exile for 14 years, stepping down in 1991. The university said Said died Thursday, but his publisher said he died late Wednesday.

He wrote passionately about the Palestinian cause and a variety of other subjects, including English literature - his academic specialty - as well as music and culture.

Said (pronounced sye-EED) was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, then part of British-ruled Palestine, but spent most of his adult life in the United States.

After the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993 between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Said criticized Yasser Arafat for making what he regarded as a bad deal for the Palestinians. He said Arafat and the Palestinian Authority had become "willing collaborators with the (Israeli) military occupation, a sort of Vichy government for Palestinians."

In 2000, during a visit to the Middle East, Said stirred a controversy on campus by throwing a rock toward an Israeli guardhouse on the Lebanese border. Columbia did not censure him, saying that the stone was directed at no one, no law was broken and his actions were protected by principles of academic freedom.

Ghazi Aridi, Lebanon's minister of culture, called Said's death a great loss for Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular. Said was "an educated man and an intellectual capable of presenting Arab and Palestinian positions in a rational, scientific and flexible manner," Aridi said.

After studying in Cairo in his youth, Said moved to the United States, where he received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1957 and a master's and Ph.D. from Harvard, in 1960 and 1964.

Most of his academic career was spent as a professor at Columbia in New York, but he also was a visiting professor at such leading institutions as Yale, Harvard and Johns Hopkins.

His books include "The Question of Palestine" in 1979 and "After the Last Sky" in 1986. His first book was a dissertation on Joseph Conrad, the early 20th century novelist on Western imperialism.

In 2002, Said, together with pianist Daniel Barenboim, was named the winner of Spain's Prince of Asturias Concord Prize for his effort toward bringing peace to the Middle East. Said and Barenboim had run summer workshops for young musicians from Israel and Arab countries.

Edward Said

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A two week old large spotted genet, a native of central Aftrica and rarely born in captivity, yawns while being watched over by his mother at Dubai's zoo September 24, 2003. The zoo hopes to move from its present small location to a nature park in the next few years.
Photo by Chris Helgren

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