BartCop Entertainment Archives - Monday, 3 October, 2005

Monday

3 October, 2005

big hammer - bigger hammer

(Updated Daily)

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Baron Dave Romm

The Android Sisters

By Baron Dave Romm

The Android Sisters

The non-profit ZBS and a review of Serenity

Shockwave Radio Theater Podcast now up and running! All podcasts also on the Shockwave Radio audio page.

Tom Lopez aka Meatball Fulton, has been running the non-profit ZBS Foundation for over 35 years. He writes and produces radio comedy/drama and gets his money from grants, licensing broadcast rights and sale of CDs. I worked with him during his Guest of Honor stint at Minicon 32. By then, he was something of a legend in the audio biz.

I first heard The Fourth Tower of Inverness in the 70s: Three minute (plue or minus) little radio playlets with an overall story arc. I never really followed the story and to this day don't know what the heck was going on, but that's not important. Back then, audio was on vinyl. Records were large, unwieldy, easy-to-scratch and required non-portable equipment to generate audio. Ah, the bad ol' days. Shockwave got the rights to play the first series of Ruby, The Galactic Gumshoe. Originally, Ruby was structured as three minute playlets, 65 cuts designed to be aired one a day for five days over 13 weeks. Back then Shockwave was an hour, and we aired fived episodes during the show. Again, I never did actually figure out the plot, or even if there was one, but it was all so weird and often absorbing. Some of the episodes were better then others, imrho, and the episodes were disjointed enough that I didn't think the order mattered very much. We had the rights for a time period, not a set number of play times, and we finished airing Ruby I with time to spare. I instituted The Random Ruby, where we would play semi-random episodes, trying to pick our favorites but never playing from the same week twice in a row even if we weren't sure. It was loads of fun and we did Random Rubies for Ruby 2 and beyond.

But I digress.

Ruby introduced The Android Sisters. Two breathlessly erotic metallic women who sound like Marilyn Monroe carefully overdubbing herself. "This is Angel." "This is Angel." "We are the Android Sisters. We are solid-state. This is the future." For me, the Android Sisters' few appearances were the highlight of Ruby, and I wanted more. Tom Lopez isn't in it for the money, but he is a terrific marketeer, and 1984 saw The Android Sisters record, Songs of Electronic Despair. They aren't really songs, they're the two sisters gushing out lyrics in a stoically orgasmics way (!) over an electronic music bed. They're referred to as speak-songs, in the tradition of talking blues or songs like Alice's Restaurant or A Boy Named Sue. I got the record (which I still have) and taped it so I could play it on the air frequently. But alas, no CD.

ZBS issued a CD of The Android Sisters Greatest Hits, containing many songs from the record and adding some of the Ruby appearances. But it didn't have my favorite song! The one I played on the air the most and the main cut I've put on mix tapes for kids is Dumb Is Fun. I tried writing Tom for a digital copy, but alas. My wait was long.

Finally, the Japanese came to my rescue, republishing all the tracks of the record plus five from Ruby in The Best of the Android Sisters. It's an odd CD in many ways. Not only is it the most expensive CD I've ever bought ($22), but it comes with a 48 page booklet in English and Japanese that's so thick that the CD crystal case has to be larger than usual and I can't file the CD in any standard slot. I'm sure it's a better deal if you read Japanese, though it's nice to have the lyrics in English. I wouldn't recommend the import if you only care about the one song, but I'm pickled tink to hear Dumb Is Fun on a CD and the other songs hold up. Down on the Electronic Farm is an Old MacDonald variant. Telephone Wires In The Tropics is an hilarious combination of titilation and sound effects. The extra cuts from Ruby are fun as well, including Elephants & Donkeys, a political commentary that presages the next CD. ZBS's audio productions are supremely well crafted and decades later sound out of the ordinary. All of them are iPod worthy. The Android Sisters are the top of that food chain, as far as I'm concerned. While I have reservations about recommending an expensive CD, I highly recommend this one and wouldn't mind if you went with the Greatest Hits CD with more cuts from Ruby but sans Dumb is Fun.

The Android Sisters are best when they're on the edge or just over. Their smoldering pre-coital double-entendres (or should that be soldering free-coil binary innuendo?) make a bold futuristic technical statement without needing much more than a good hook. Still, any artist must dispair of the political situation today, and Meatball Fulton is not one to drop the ball. 2003's Pull No Punches pulls no punches. "If you support the policies of the president and his administration, don't buy this. But if you are less than delighted with Pres & Co., then get this ... you're going to hoot and stomp your feet and slap the side of your head. It's pretty hot stuff." The description on the web site is hype, but basically correct. Frankly, I think a little bit more subtlety and cleverness would have served the cause greater, but if you're going to vent your spleen it's really great to have androids on your side. Not all the cuts work, but some hit home. Holy Moly is about "The Fourth Crusade" and the relious/economic aspect of the war in Iraq. Hey, Monster Maker is about the conservative news media making demons of the administration's enemies but giving a pass to the uncaring Republicans.

Pull No Punches isn't particularly stfnal or weird, but many of the tracks are iPw for those of us who like being reminded that we're not alone in an over-hyped micro-managed media world. Since most everyone reading this is less gullible than most everyone who still approves of No Balls Bush, I'll give the CD a recommendation.


Serenity takes place after the events of the tv show Firefly. The opening sequence explains much that the show didn't have time to fill in. Then the regular characters pick up a little after we last saw them. Fans of the show will like Serenity. A lot.

The opening sequence gives newcomers most of the backstory. The characters are introduced as much as they need be in the next sequence. If you've never seen the tv show, you'll like Serenity. A lot.

The tv show was a Western in space, chronicling the adventures of a rootin'-shootin' cowboy with a brittle edge but a heart of gold. The movie is a science fiction saga of individual rights and courage vs. a controlling and repressive government. On tv, the characters are simple but the plot complex; you can only reveal so much in an hour but over many episodes the characters flesh out and the story arc builds slowly. In a movie, the characters are complex but the plot is simple; you quickly introduce quirky people and place them in situations the audience can relate to before they have to run to the bathroom.

As a fan of the show, perhaps I was closer to the characters than someone who walks in cold. I was very affected by Serenity. It seemed damn near perfect. Now, several days later, after mulling it over a bit and reading other reviews, it's not so perfect. But it's damn close. The danger is thinking it's an episode of Firefly (they can't use the name because Fox has tied up the rights).

Serenity is a movie, not a tv show. For those of you who pay attention to such things, watch the first sequence on Firefly, under the opening credits and beyond. Most of it is one long take. Joss Whedon is the director as well as the writer of the movie, and he's probably just made his reputation in the former as high as the latter.

Notice how back story gets filled in: The opening and denouement both use flashbacks that repeat. Notice how the characters are comfortable in their own skin. Whedon is famous for his dialog, and while there's not so much offhand humor there is a lot of character development. The sound and dialog are as important as the visuals. Several lines of dialog are going to wind up in the pop lexicon, so you might as well see the context.

The downside is that Serenity has a great deal more back story and character development than can fit in two and a half hours. Whedon does a great job, but the movie is far more powerful if you're invested in the characters. And while Serenity answers a lot of questions raised in Firefly, it also raises a few more. Sequel(s) anyone? Generally, that's a plus and it's a plus here, but it does serve to remind us that the story arc is not finished. While I hope for more movies from Joss Whedon, I hope he has learned the lesson of The Matrix: Making bad sequels can tarnish the original.

Serenity works as both a continuation of the tv show and as a powerful standalone movie. Highly recommended. Coming out of the theater I had a more favorable impression but I'm still going to rate it very high. At the moment, on the Shockwave Radio Theater scale of 9 to 23, with 23 being top, I'd give Serenity about a 21, maybe next week it'll be down to about a 20 depending on how I cynical feel about the ending. So Serenity is either one of the best science fiction movies ever made, or merely one of the better ones. You should see it.

Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia with a radio show, a Live Journal demi-blog, a very weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. Dave Romm reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E , and you can hear the last two Shockwave broadcasts in Real Audio (scroll down to Shockwave). Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to play on the air.

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"I swallowed a bug."
-- River, "Serenity"


Thanks (again), Baron Dave!

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Leonore Dvorkin


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MeetWithCindy.org

Bring Them Home Now Tour

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FLOATING ON SIDEWALK

FINISHING LIQUID CONCRETE

BEFORE IT HARDENS


Zen Man
(near Chez Pannise in Berkeley)

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Erin Hart Show Links

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Mark Engler: Hook, Line and Suckers (inthesetimes.com)
In early 2003 the New York Times Magazine announced the arrival of a new echelon of the unemployed with a cover story that pictured an aging ex-dot-commer and noted, "This man used to make $300,000 a year. Now he's selling khakis."


Phoebe Connelly: Witnesses to War: Military families bring the cost of war to students (inthesetimes.com)
At 7:45 am on the second day of school, Karen Meredith, a founding member of Gold Star Families For Peace, sat in front of a senior sociology class at Thomas Kelly High School on Chicago's south side. "I am not anti-military, my son was a fourth generation army officer," she told the class. "But I believe that this administration is not using the military in a way many of us in this country think they should."


Molly Ivins: The DeLay Defense
The troubled speaker attacks the prosecutor, then signs up a defense dream team.


Robert Jensen: Empathy is the First Ingredient (The Progressive. Posted on alternet.org)
Acclaimed Texas folk singer Eliza Gilkyson is a unique combination of heart, soul and progressive political vision.


Deborah Jowitt: A Star Dances (villagevoice.com)
Obviously, crawling isn't the only means of locomotion in the hour-long solo. Anyone making a dance about a cripple inevitably has to focus on the character's inner, more mobile life. So [Claire] Danes, legs striking out, races around the room, now forward, now backward. ... Make no mistake: She's a dancer.

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Another Rant

Avery Ant

 
THE SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS
 
The Solution To Homelessness

 Oh Those Babies

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Hubert's Poetry Corner

Eyes of Fern Holland

Just one of the thousands of consequences George W has wrought - with thousands more to follow!

"EYES OF FERN HOLLAND"


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Purple Gene Reviews

Eliza Gilkyson

Purple Gene's review of Singer/Songwriter Eliza Gilkyson:



Eliza Gilkyson has been on a long, long journey……and she just wound up today in Golden Gate Park, on stage, at a Bluegrass festival over shadowed by the likes of Dolly Parton, Emmy Lou Harris, Roseanne Cash, Gillian Welch and many other…..and singing a protest song of all things…… let me explain….

Almost twenty years ago, at the suggestion of a friend, myself and my then wife Theresa, went over to San Franciso to a small night club to see a virtually unknown folk singer from Santa Fe named "Liza" Gilkyson…..she had written a song for Roseanne Cash called "Rosie Strikes Back" about spousal abuse….she also had a song called "Calling all Angels" that caught my attention……This was a women traveling around in a Plymouth Valiant, selling tapes out of the trunk….she didn't even have a guitar stand….no she just stood there and "sang 'em" ….she looked a little like Joni Mitchell with long blond hair and sang beautifully.



I followed her career casually through the 80's and 90's watching her music change from "old hippie folk country to new age crystal way deep ethereal…until….I finally lost track of her on the musical map. But yesterday, I received an E'mail from my brother, that Mad Cat, about a singer from Austin Texas playing a gig at the Cactus Club singing a song called "Man of God"……

     "The cowboy came from out of the West with his snakeskin boots and bulletproof vest
      Gang of goons and a big war chest Fortunate son he was double blessed
      Corporate cronies and chiefs of staff bowing to the image of the golden calf
      Startin' up wars in the name of god's son
      Gonna blow us all the way to Kingdom Come
      Man of god…man of god…
      That ain't the teachings of a man of god!!!"


Holy Bob Dylan singing "Masters of War" and "With God on our Side"…..Holy Neil Young singing "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World"….Holy Bright Eyes singing "When the President Talks to God" on Leno…..and Holy fucking Green Day singing "American Idiot" all over the world…….Eliza has arrived, found her voice, and hit the "I'm so pissed off about what's going on in America" JACKPOT!



So I go over the Bay Bridge to the early show on the side stage of the Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. It's foggy and damp back here in the Cypress trees. On the stage walks this chopped hair winsome woman with a guitar…now she looks like Sharon Stone! There's hardly anybody here to see her….they'll all come over for the BIG ACTS…. later….

Eliza doesn't sing "Calling all Angels" anymore….She sings "Peace Call" and "Redemption Road" and………"Man of God"……..And she sounds GREAT…..

Purple Gene gives Eliza Gilkyson 10 super star standing ovations out of 10 for putting out the word so powerfully…too bad there weren't more people there to hear it!

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

END OF THE WORLD

CAN'T HIDE THE REPUG STENCH

MAJOR LEAGUE OLD SICK REPUG ASSHOLE

MAJOR LEAGUE REPUG ASSHOLE IS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

JUDY THE SNITCH

THE THEORY OF OBFUSCATION

FURTHER PROOF THAT ALL GODS SUCK

BUGMAN AND THE PAPER WEIGHT

TRMPAC IN IRAQ

HELLO, PRESIDENT HASTERT!

"WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND"

THIS WILL MAKE YOU PUKE

PROGRESSIVE PECKERWOODS

BUGMAN AND IRON BUTT

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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and cooler.

Dear old Dad called this morning from Arizona. The Babe's daughter was in a motorcycle accident and is in a coma, so it's a mission of mercy, as opposed to a spur-of-the-moment vacation.

She was on the back of the bike, not wearing a helmet, when a wall jumped out. The driver has only minor injuries.

The Babe remains at the hospital, waiting, and dear old Dad is babysitting the daughter's 2 daughters back at the house.



Tonight, Monday:

CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'King Of Queens', followed by a FRESH 'How I Met Your Mother', then a FRESH '2½ Men', followed by a FRESH 'Out Of Practice', then a FRESH 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Freddie Prinze Jr. and Beck.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Julian McMahon, Jennifer Finnegan, and John Hiatt & the North Mississippi Allstars.

NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Surface', followed by a FRESH 'Las Vegas', then a FRESH 'Medium'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Denise Richards, Emeril Lagasse, and Liz Phair.
On a traditional Monday night RERUN Conan (from 6/23/05) are Bob Costas, Justin Long, and Robbie Knievel.
On a traditional Monday night RERUN Carson Daly are David Cross, Jaime King, and the Donnas.

ABC starts the night on the East Coast with a RERUN 'Lost', followed by the LIVE 'MNF Football' - Packers visit the Panthers.
On the left coast the night starts with the LIVE 'MNF Football' - Packers visit the Panthers, followed by some local filler crap, then the RERUN 'Lost'
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Jessica Alba, Neil Strauss, and Brad Paisley.

The WB offers a FRESH '7th Heaven', followed by a FRESH 'Just Legal'.

Faux has a FRESH 'Arrested Development', followed by a FRESH 'Kitchen Confidential', then a FRESH 'Prison Break'.

UPN has a FRESH 'One On One', followed by a FRESH 'All Of Us', then a FRESH 'Girlfriends', followed by a FRESH 'Half & Half'.

A&E has 'Cold Case Files', followed by the movie 'Superman II', and 'Airline'.

AMC offers the movie 'Dr. T & The Women', followed by the movie 'The Karate Kid', then the movie 'Stand By Me'.

BBC  -   
 [2pm]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - It's the Arts;
 [2:40pm]    'The Mighty Boosh' - Episode 1;
 [3:20pm]    'The Mighty Boosh' - Episode 2;
 [4pm]    'Jonathan Creek' - Angel Hair;
 [6pm]    'BBC World News';
 [6:30pm]    'House Invaders' - Southgate;
 [7pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 26;
 [8pm]    'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 7;
 [11pm]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - It's the Arts;
 [12:20am]    'Kumars at No. 42' - Kumars at No. 42;
 [3am]    'Night Flight' - Night Flight;
 [6am]    'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE 'Great Things About Being...'.

Comedy Central has the movie 'Saving Silverman', an old 'Jon Stewart', last week's 'Showbiz Show With David Spade', 'Drew Carey's Green Screen Show', 'South Park', 'Blue Collar TV', and another 'Blue Collar TV'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is David Rakoff.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'New UFO Revelations: The Gray's Agenda', followed by a FRESH 'Decoding The Past', and 'Weird U.S.'.

IFC  -   
 [6AM]    Final' (2001);
 [8AM]    Wild Man Blues' (1997);
 [10AM]    Secret Ballot' (2001);
 [12PM]    IFC October Short Film Showcase' (2005);
 [1PM]    Home Movie' (2002);
 [2:15PM]    Wild Man Blues' (1997);
 [4:15PM]    Secret Ballot' (2001);
 [6:15PM]    The Broken Hearts Club' (2000);
 [8PM]    At The IFC Center' (2005);
 [8:30PM]    The Festival #1' (2005);
 [9PM]    Bend It Like Beckham' (2002);
 [11PM]    Unhook The Stars' (1996);
 [1AM]    Bend It Like Beckham' (2002);
 [3AM]    Unhook The Stars' (1996);
 [5AM]    At The IFC Center' (2005);
 [5:30AM]    The Festival #1' (2005).    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has all 'Stargate SG-1' all night.

Sundance  -   
 [6AM]    Slings & Arrows: Episode 3 - Madness in Great Ones;
 [7AM]    The Al Franken Show: (09/30/05);
 [8AM]    Brighton Beach Memoirs;
 [10AM]    Hermitage-niks': A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 5 - The Remains of an Era;
 [10:30AM]    Underdog;
 [11AM]    The Al Franken Show: (09/30/05);
 [12PM]    Purple Hearts;
 [1:30PM]    Children: Kosovo 2000;
 [3:05PM]    Control Room;
 [4:35PM]    Grass;
 [6PM]    Hermitage-niks': A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 5 - The Remains of an Era;
 [6:30PM]    TransGeneration: Episode 2;
 [7PM]    Underdog;
 [7:30PM]    Purple Hearts;
 [9PM]    Condor: The First War on Terror;
 [10:30PM]    Whole;
 [11:30PM]    The Al Franken Show: (10/03/05);
 [12:30AM]    Cry Funny Happy;
 [2:05AM]    Underdog;
 [2:30AM]    The Al Franken Show: (10/03/05);
 [3:30AM]    Washington Heights;
 [5AM]    Control Room.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM features 3 films with Paul Robeson early in the morning, then spends the night with Robert Mitchum.
 [6:15am]    'King Solomon's Mines' (1937);
 [7:45am]    'Song of Freedom' (1936);
 [9am]    'Trader Horn' (1931);

 [11:15am]    'Red Dust' (1932);
 [12:45pm]    'Mogambo' (1953)     [View Trailer];
 [2:45pm]    'Clarence, The Cross-Eyed Lion' (1965);
 [4:30pm]    'Trader Horn' (1973);
 [6:15 pm]    'Born Free' (1966)     [View Trailer];
 [8pm]    'The Night Of The Hunter' (1955);
 [10pm]    'Cape Fear' (1962)     [View Trailer];
 [12am]    'The Big Steal' (1950);
 [1:15am]    'His Kind Of Woman' (1951);
 [3:30am]    'Private Screenings: Mitchum/Russell' (1996);
 [4:15am    'Macao' (1952);
 [5:45am]    'Desire Me' (1947).
    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Tuesday  -  10/04

TCM spends the morning and all night with Robert Mitchum.
 [7:30am]    Holiday Affair (1950);
 [9am]    Second Chance (1953);
 [10:30am]    She Couldn't Say No (1954);

 [12pm]    Free And Easy (1941);
 [1pm]    Pacific Rendezvous (1942);
 [2:30pm]    Pilot No. 5 (1943);
 [4pm]    The Caddy (1953);
 [5:45pm]    The Bellboy (1960);
 [7pm] Private Screenings: Lauren Bacall (2005);
 [8pm]    Out of the Past (1947);
 [10pm]    Crossfire (1947);
 [11:30pm]    My Forbidden Past (1951);
 [1am]    The Racket (1951);
 [2:30am]    Angel Face (1953);
 [4:15am]    Girl Rush (1944);
 [5:30am]    Blood On The Moon (1949).
    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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Barbra Streisand sings during the Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children fundraiser at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas October 1, 2005. The fundraiser, presented by Genworth Financial, benefits the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation established in 1994 to assist underprivileged children.
Photo by Steve Marcus
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THE DAILY DELAY

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Walking Short Distances

Roy Horn

Roy Horn says "the magic is back." But two years after he was nearly killed by a tiger on stage, the magic is about walking short distances, not making elephants disappear.

"I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain," Horn, of the famed duo "Siegfried & Roy," told the Las Vegas Sun. "I'm trying to live with this."

Horn can now walk unaided for short distances, and the grip of his right hand is noticeably firm. But signs of the attack remain: A thin white scar cuts across the right side of his neck, his left side is partially paralyzed and his walk is a slow shuffle.

Roy Horn

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Woody Allen's wife Soon-Yi Previn, center, and her daughters Manzie Allen, 5, left, and Bechet Allen, 6 pose for photographers as they arrive in a horse drawn carriage for the screening of the digitally restored version of Walt Disney's original animated feature 'Cinderella' at the Ziegeld Theater in New York Sunday Oct. 2, 2005. The screening was in honor of the movie's arrival on DVD for the first time. The DVD is scheduled to be available October 4, 2005.
Photo by Tina Fineberg
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Stupid Quotes by Tom DeLay

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Singer Marries Ex-Ukraine PM's Daughter

Tymoshenko - Carr

A British heavy metal singer married the daughter of Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Sunday in a ceremony that attracted a swarm of journalists and at least 100 well-wishers eager for a glimpse of the famous mother-in-law.

Sean Carr, 36, lead singer of the Death Valley Screamers, and Evhenya Tymoshenko, 25, emerged from the walled Vydubitskiy Monastery to a salute of ringing bells and Scottish bagpipes - and the flash of dozens of cameras.

Carr smashed his glass down on the pavement, prompting applause from his new mother-in-law, Yulia Tymoshenko, who abandoned her traditional halo braid and wore her long blonde hair loose over her bare shoulders.

Tymoshenko - Carr

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bartcook

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Life-Saving Photog

Mark Biello

Journalism may be the only profession where someone who helped save more than a dozen lives felt compelled to reassure his bosses that his time was well spent.

The night after Hurricane Katrina struck, veteran CNN photographer Mark Biello brought back vivid images of New Orleans residents rescued from floodwaters that chased them to roofs or attics. Some he pulled into a boat himself.

Biello, 44, has worked for CNN since 1983 and been to 81 countries, recording famine, disaster and the bombs that flew over Baghdad in the first Gulf War. But even he was shocked by what he saw from a New Orleans highway overpass.

Mark Biello

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Indian children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi take part in a peace rally on Gandhi's 136th birth anniversary in New Delhi October 2, 2005. Gandhi was instrumental in India's struggle for independence from Britain and was a devoted follower of non-violent protests and religious tolerance.
Photo by Kamal Kishore
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Google Blogoscoped

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Works on Sitcom for ABC

Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge says she's working on a sitcom. The show, still in development with ABC, is about "what my life might have been like had I not left to find my fame and fortune, and stayed in Kansas and became a teacher and been gay and dealt with life there," Etheridge told Time magazine.

The two-time Grammy winner says she doesn't want to rely on touring to make a living, and a television show would allow her to "be home for dinner."

Melissa Etheridge

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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Firemen Used For Photo Op

$chwarzenegger

At a time when he has been at odds with firefighters and other public employee unions, Gov. Arnold $chwarzenegger (R-Philanderer) was greeted warmly by dozens of uniformed emergency workers Friday when he visited crews battling wildfires near Los Angeles.

After inspecting thousands of scorched acres by helicopter, the Republican governor shook hands and posed for pictures with a crowd of firefighters, police and other emergency workers at a command center.

The cordial visit stood in contrast with large protests in recent months, in which firefighters and other union members have harshly criticized $chwarzenegger's proposals on pensions and other issues.

$chwarzenegger

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Actress Celeste Holm poses for photographers as she arrives for the screening of the digitally restored version of Walt Disney's original animated feature 'Cinderella' at the Ziegeld Theater in New York Sunday Oct. 2, 2005. The screening was in honor of the movie's arrrival on DVD for the first time. The DVD is scheduled to be available October 4, 2005.
Photo by Tina Fineberg
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NYsee

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Composer Cracks Musical Code

Rosslyn Chapel

A musical code hidden in mystical symbols carved into the stone ceiling of Rosslyn Chapel has been unravelled for the first time in more than 500 years.

Scottish composer Stuart Mitchell took 20 years to crack a complex series of codes, which have mystified historians for generations. His feat was hailed by experts as a stroke of genius.

The codes were hidden in 213 cubes in the ceiling of the chapel, where parts of the film of Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code were shot this week.

Each cube contained different patterns to form an unusual 6½-minute piece of music for 13 medieval players. The unusual sound is thought to have been of great spiritual significance to those who built the chapel.

Rosslyn Chapel

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A combination of ten pictures shows participants of the World Beard and Moustaches championships in Berlin October 1, 2005. More than 230 men from all over the world took part in 17 different categories in the world championships.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

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Man Breaks Display Case

Pennsylvania Evening Post

A man smashed a display case at the Wisconsin Historical Society to steal a Revolutionary War-era book worth $5,000, authorities say.

Matthew Brooke, 26, was charged Friday with felony theft of library materials and criminal damage to property. He went to the Historical Society on Thursday, according to a criminal complaint, and smashed the window on a second-floor antique display case with his elbow. He allegedly swiped the "Pennsylvania Evening Post" from inside the case.

Brooke told detectives he took the book because he wanted to read a story on page 106 about a historical figure named William Hill.

Pennsylvania Evening Post

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'Gotheborg', a replica of a Swedish 18th-century frigate, sets sail for China, surrounded by smaller ships in the Goteborg harbor, Sweden, Sunday, Oct. 2 2005. The ship is built mostly with the hand techniques used to build its forerunner, that sank in 1745, as it entered Goteborg port loaded with goods from Asia.
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Islam in Sci-Fi

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Found With Deer

Missing Patient

A man who was reported missing from a hospital in Florida has been found in North Carolina.

The patient was dressed like a doctor and driving a stolen ambulance with a dead deer in the back.

Local police said said the deer was hooked up to an intravenous feed, with a recently used defibrillator lying by its chest. The patient is now under psychiatric care.

Missing Patient

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Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album

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In Memory

August Wilson

Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America included such landmark dramas as "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," died Sunday of liver cancer, a family spokeswoman said. He was 60.

Wilson's plays were big, often sprawling and poetic, dealing primarily with the effects of slavery on succeeding generations of black Americans: from turn-of-century characters who could remember the Civil War to a prosperous middle class at the end of the century who had forgotten the past.

The playwright's astonishing creation, which took more than 20 years to complete, was remarkable not only for his commitment to a certain structure - one play for each decade - but for the quality of the writing. It was a unique achievement in American drama. Not even Eugene O'Neill, who authored the masterpiece "Long Day's Journey Into Night," accomplished such a monumental effort.

Pittsburgh, Wilson's birthplace, is the setting for nine of the 10 plays in the cycle ("Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is set in a Chicago recording studio). Although he lived in Seattle, the playwright had a great deal of affection for his hometown, especially "the Hill," a dilapidated area of the city where he spent much of his youth.

Wilson, a bulky, affable man who always had a story to tell, usually returned to Pittsburgh once a year to visit his mother's grave, but he said he couldn't live there: "Too many ghosts. But I love it. That's what gave birth to me."

Born Frederick August Kittel on April 27, 1945, he was one of six children of Frederick Kittel, a baker who had emigrated from Germany at the age of 10, and Daisy Wilson. A high school dropout, Wilson enlisted in the Army but left after a year, finding employment as a porter, short-order cook and dishwasher, among other jobs. When his father died in 1965, he changed his name to August Wilson.

Wilson was largely self-educated. The public library was his university and the recordings of such iconic singers and musicians as Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton, and the paintings of such artists as Romare Bearden his inspiration.

Wilson, who was married three times, is survived by his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero; their daughter Azula Carmen, and another daughter, Sakina Ansari, from his first marriage.

August Wilson

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US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas laughs as he leaves St. Matthew's Cathedral after attending the 52th annual Red Mass, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005 in Washington. The Red Mass is held on the Sunday prior to the opening of the Supreme Court's session.
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