BartCop Entertainment Archives - Monday, 9 October, 2006

Monday

9 October, 2006

big hammer - bigger hammer

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The Projectionist

By Baron Dave Romm

The Projectionist

Reviewing a movie, wine, blogs... and a projectionist

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A movie about movies

The Projectionist is a brilliant movie without being a successful one.

The film is occasionally noted for being Rodney Dangerfield's first movie. Dangerfield gives a great performance as a thoroughly unlikable man who doesn't deserve respect. But the star of the show is Chuck McCann, who is marvelous. I suspect the movie didn't succeed because the funny parts (which are very funny) don't outweigh the bleak parts (which are very bleak). You need both the humor and the bleakness to balance the stiletto-sharp observations about American culture during a time when a president from Texas lied to get us into a war we had no right to be in. At least in the 70s, we still had a free press.

Chuck McCann was one of my favorites growing up near NYC in the early 60s. He would read the comics to the kids, and even before I could read he was an influence. The Moon Maid was a character in Dick Tracy, and he would always start off her dialog with falsetto "menneee menneee menneee" sounds (which weren't in the strip). A small thing, but I was small.

McCann has a Jonathan Winters-like ability to morph into improv combined with a Robin Williams-like ability to insert pop culture strokes. He never made it as big as either of them, but did have a successful career for several decades, mostly as host/creator of children's puppet shows.

McCann was also a friend of Hugh Hefner, which probably (I'm guessing) led to his introduction to Harry Hurwitz, who continues to make just-under-R-to-soft-X movies. The Projectionist is such a movie: Not much hard language (despite Dangerfield) and a few salacious breast shots. Not for the kiddies, but all the nudity is appropriate and mostly played for laughs. Still, the tittie shots are for adolescents; the montages of Nazis and the KKK and the references to Vietnam are for adults.

The Projectionist operates on three levels of reality. The basic storyline follows McCann's character (listed only as "The Projectionist" in the credits) as he works in the projection booth in a Times Square low-rent movie theater. The problems with the manager of the theater (Dangerfield), and friendship with the concession stand salesman (who had been in 60 movies in Czechoslovakia but had to leave when the Communists took over) become fodder for his overactive imagination. After his shift, he goes home to a single room decorated with movie posters and watches tv until the station goes off the air. (Remember when stations went off the air?) In the morning, he wanders around Times Square, then heads back to work. Bleak.

While The Projectionist is living his real life, he fills the boring parts with snippets from his vast encyclopedic knowledge of film and history. As he leaves the projection booth, McCann goes on a riff, looking at movie stills, combining impressions and favorite lines from several actors. This is a guy who knows 'em all, and loves 'em all. When the tv station goes off the air, he watches while it shows images to The Star Spangled Banner... and then replays The Star Spangled Banner with his own images of Nazis and the KKK and the Vietnam War. An astonishing sequence. As he goes around Times Square, he's the star, and the movie marquee has his name in lights and the paparazzi want to interview him. After spending his life behind the projector and in front of a screen, wish fulfillment places him in front of the camera.

Meanwhile... The weakest part is the Captain Flash/The Bat silent film playing in McCann's head. Too bad. McCann plays a lovable but bumbling superhero called Captain Flash who saves the scientist (the concession stand guy) with a beautiful daughter (Ina Balin) from The Bat (Dangerfield). It's moderately amusing, with many references to a wide array of movies. A scene at Rick's Cafe Americain (from Casablanca) vies with scenes from Flash Gordon. Since the character doesn't really have a life, the movie-within-a-movie doesn't really resolve well. The attempt is admirable, but not cartoonish enough to balance the bleakness of his life or the real evil in too much of Vietnam-era USA.

The war movie montages are great. The self-references to the movie bend it all inward. As a movie buff, I think I recognized quite a few of the obscure films that zip by (such as DW Griffith's short Man's Genesis, which is basically the first part of 2001: A Space Odyseey... done in 1912). I first saw this at college. Part of a conceptually juxtaposed double feature of The Projectionist ("the saddest funny movie ever made") and Sunset Boulevard ("the funniest sad movie ever made"). I eventually joined the film group and because the VP and Head Projectionist.

I can relate.

I'm going to allow my own experiences to guid my recommendation. On the Shockwave Radio scale of 9 to 23, with 23 being high, I give The Projectionist about a 19. I would have loved for the DVD to have commentary or some other extras, but it doesn't. If you're not a film buff, let the images just wash over you and check out what Times Square looked like circa 1970. If you're a projectionist, you'll love the shots of the film being threaded through the projector and revel in the solitude of the job. Yes, it's like that.


Wine

2004 Amelie Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot. Mankas Hills Vineyards has a blog. By itself, not so terribly surprising. At least it's not a MySpace page. The surprise (at least to me) is how they dove into the blogosphere wine-stomping feet first. In June, they made an offer of a sample bottle of their award-winning wine to any blogger. I couldn't resist. Neither could many people, such as Blog Another blog and the offer is now closed. I got the wine, and will talk about it herein.

It's good. Full-bodied taste that might overpower some and took me a few sips to get into. High alcohol content (13.5%) which is a major plus for those of us who review wine one bottle at a time. I'm not enough of an oenologist to properly rate it against others of its type or say whether it's offered at a good price, but it complimented my Subway sandwich, even with the Jalapenos. Why a wine released in May 2006 is listed as 2004 vintage is beyond my marketing ken, but there you are.

I'm amused at the marketing campaign, and admire the name (one of my favorite movies) and the label art is good. None of which affects the wine, but all are plusses. I'm not going to give any wine a blanket recommendation, and I'm not going to order a case (sorry guys), but I'll keep an eye out for this in the stores during a sale.


Blogs

As long as I'm talking about blogs, let me mention two new ones.

My brother Joe is a scientist and policy maker in Renewable Energy. He worked in the Energy Department of the Clinton administration, started his own company and has written several books an energy and Shakespeare. He began to blog his thoughts and observations in Climate Progress, which is a must for anyone who wants to keep up with the current discussion on global warming and the Bush Administration's deadly right-wing stupidity toward climate change.

I get lots of requests to link to and/or review blogs, but timing is everything. Left Wing Nutjob sent me a request as I was writing this so what the heck. Two moving gifs almost take it out of readability, but my brief look at the content shows an appropriately snarky guy with a wide range of interests and a good sense of links.


Bob Tucker: A real projectionist

For the second time in two weeks, I'm sad to report the death of a friend. Wilson "Bob" Tucker was a fixture at many midwestern science fiction conventions in his prime. As a writer, he was Wilson Tucker, with more than 20 sf and mystery books to his credit. But his profession was as a movie projectionist, adding another layer to this review of the McCann movie. Unlike McCann's character, Tucker had A Life, and he lived it to the fullest. Universally known as Bob Tucker, he was active in the sf fan community for more than 60 years. His signature move at science fiction conventions was to pass around a bottle of Beam's Choice. He would take a sip (in later years, more of a touch of the lips) and raise one hand. He would pass the bottle for the next person to take a sip (checking to see that they were of age or didn't have a medical condition, in which case they could just hold the bottle for a second and pass it on, but they had to raise their hand). The bottle went around the circle. When it got back to Tucker, he would lead everyone in a chorus of "smoooooooth" while gently sliding the hand down in a smooth gesture.

"Smooth" comes from a Red Skeleton routine. Beam's Choice wasn't his favorite liquor. It comes from a running joke among fanzine fans in the late 30s/early 40s to put your favorite booze in the colophon (where your name and address were). His favorite was taken. That didn't affect the joke in any way. Generations of fans "smooothed" with Tucker.

Bob Tucker was loquacious, gentle, humorous and ribald. He was a friend to almost everyone. His contribution to the world goes waaaay beyond one ritual. He hadn't been active in many years, but even when he didn't show up at a convention, he was talked about and we "smooothed" in his honor. The tradition will continue.


Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia who produces Shockwave Radio Theater, writes in a Live Journal demi-blog, plays with 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. Podcasts of Shockwave Radio Theater. Permanent archive. More radio programs, interviews and science fiction humor plays can be accessed on the Shockwave Radio audio page.

Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to play on the air.

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"The key to a long life: Exotic women, boring cheese."
-- House


Thanks (again), Baron Dave!

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LIVING IN OAKLAND

WITH IT'S LATEST DEATH.....ALMOST

AS BAD AS BAGHDAD


zEN mAN
(lamenting the daily news of yet another homicide here....last night was # 119...in a little over 9 months)

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It's The E-Sodomy, Stupid


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Kim Ficera: Don't Quote Me: Online Anonymity Fosters Prejudice (afterellen.com)
"Anna's biggest concern was that these kids, in a couple years, will be adults, and they will have been taught that they can humiliate someone like this and get away with it." - Murphy Klasing, lawyer for Anna Draker, a high school administrator who has filed suit against two students that created a MySpace.com profile in her name and posted false information indicating she was a lesbian.


Karel: Foley's pathetic blame game (advocate.com)
Hey, Mark Foley! Stop using sexuality to explain away why you're so screwed up. You're screwed up because you were a mess to start with, not because you drink too much (allegedly). You're a creep. Live with it.


Matthew Link: Rep. Barney Frank talks about the Foley scandal (advocate.com)
One of the few out politicians on Capitol Hill, Democratic congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts (who survived his own scandal involving a male prostitute in 1989) gives us his take on Foley and on being a gay politician in Washington.


Greg Hernandez: Martina Navratilova Retires on a High Note (afterellen.com)
Less than two weeks after ending her tennis career with a mixed doubles win at the U.S. Open, Martina Navratilova is back home in Sarasota, Fla., trying to catch up on things as she prepares to get on with the rest of her life.


Diane Anderson-Minshall: Lesbians Behind the Lens (curvemag.com)
Lesbian films are always feast or famine, with a new batch of fresh originals hitting the festival circuit (and sometimes DVD shelves) each summer. This past season a few must-see flicks may have been overlooked even though a lesbian auteur was behind the lens.


Armond White: POLYAMOROUS SOCIAL SATIRE (nypress.com)
John Cameron Mitchell makes history with Shortbus-a bright, impudent new chapter in New York bohemian cinema. A comical S&M scene in front of a penthouse view of Ground Zero says more about the Big Apple mood than the 9/11 Commission Report.


Robert Urban: Review of John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (afterelton.com)
Shortbus is a film made by and about bohemian, nonconformist libertines for an audience of the same. Beneath its simple tale of sexually unsatisfied people lies its deeper message: Current conservative trends in American society are stifling to artistic, intellectual and sexual creativity.


Rabbi Susan Grossman: Why Sukkot Trumps Yom Kippur (beliefnet.com)
I don't mean to sound heretical, but if given my druthers, I would rather Jews observe the seven days of Sukkot than the 25 hours of Yom Kippur. (Of course, I would prefer they do both, but this is one of those hypothetical conundrums.)


Signe Wilkinson: One Nation, Under Surveillance (lulu.com)
"A timely book by the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons." Bruce says to check out the free pdf preview.!

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The Funniest People in Sports...

Bruce's Books

The Funniest People in Sports and Neighborhoods: 500 Anecdotes

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$10.34 Print

This book contains anecdotes as like: 1) Bob Zuppke coached the football Illini for years. In a discussion of football rules, someone described a play and asked whether the officials had made the right call. Before answering, however, Mr. Zuppke asked, "Which team made the foul-Illinois or the other one?" 2) At a Westminster Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, a woman was selling an expensive coat made for dogs. Saying "We want her dog to look as smart as madame," the saleslady held up a pink cocktail coat made out of embroidered silk with a lining of mohair. Sportswriter Robert Lipsyte asked her, "When would a dog wear that?" The saleslady replied, "After five o'clock." 3) Shannon Martin was six years old when she won an age-12-and-under roping contest, for which she was written up in the "Roping Sports News." Because she hadn't learned to read yet, she kept saying to her father, "Come on, Dad. Read it again."

Buyer Beware: If you bought "The Funniest People in Sports," please be aware that this book contains all of those anecdotes, plus 250 more, new anecdotes.

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Reader Comment

Re: Robert Anton Wilson

Dear Marty,

Thanks for the updates about Robert Anton Wilson - my favorite author.

I was twenty three when I started reading Cosmic Trigger. Wilson was writing about this weird "23 enigma". I was working at a radio station, back before the internet. We had an old A.P. machine spitting out news. At 23 past the hour (the stories are time stamped) there came a report about a car wreck on a highway 23. I kept that little news blurb with me for a long time to remind me that life is sometimes unfathomable. And magickal.

Jayson


Thanks, Jayson!

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Hubert's Poetry Corner

MY WRY EYE

WHY DO W'S SUPPORTERS CONTINUALLY 'HACK AND PURGE' THIS AND MY OTHER 'POETIC DEEDS'?

"MY WRY EYE"


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Reader Comment

Sienna Miller

Marty

It seems that actress Sienna Miller is not too thrilled with Pittsburgh.

Article about her remarks about the city while she was here to film Michael Chabon's novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh."

MAM



Thanks, Marianne!
Here's her apology - Sienna Actually Thinks Pittsburgh is "Beautiful".
Heh - and her dad is from Meadville.

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

SEX, LIES AND A VICIOUS DATE! AN IMPORTANT REP0ST ON REPUG FAMILY VALUES

SEPTEMBER WAS HORRIFIC!

A DYING POPULATION

RUNNING OUT OF STRING

FROM FOX TO WHITE HOUSE POODLE

THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING JESUS FREAKS

THE RIGHT WING TIN FOIL HATS PLUG IN

ALL PENIS, ALL THE TIME

THE YOUNG BUCK STOPS HERE

HE'S DRIVING THE WINGNUTS CRAZY

PBS. POODLE BROADCAST SYSTEM

MACACA MAN FINDS DEEP POCKETS

BLITZER GETS HIS WOLF BACK

GOODBYE REPUG PRICK!

BUT WILL THE YELLOWBELLY BUSH BRO EVER COME OUT?

"WOULD U LET A GUY GIVE U A BJ 4 MONEY?" REPUGS ARE REALLY SICK FUCKS

FAT BOY STEW

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH REPUBLICAN REHABILITATION PROGRAM

MEN WHO HAVE OCCUPIED THE WHITE HOUSE

MUST BE A REPUG

THERE ARE SOME REAL CHRISTIANS

ANOTHER REPUG DICK GOES LIMP


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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and what passes for brisk in these parts.


Tonight, Monday:

CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a FRESH 'The Class', then a FRESH '2½ Men', followed by a FRESH 'Old Christine', then a FRESH 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Robin Williams, Sam Moore, and "Survivor: Cook Islands" castaway J.P. Calderon.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Emmitt Smith and Kristin Chenoweth.

NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH 'Heroes', then a FRESH 'Studio 60'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Tina Fey, Annika Sorenstam, and Fergie.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are John Lithgow, Lewis Black, and Gomez.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Leelee Sobieski and Kill Hannah.

ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH 'The Bachelor: Roma', then a FRESH 'What About Brian'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 10/4/06) are Dane Cook, Emilie de Ravin, and the Killers.

The CW offers a FRESH '7th Heaven', followed by a FRESH 'Runaway'.

Faux has a RERUN 'Prison Break', followed by a RERUN 'Justice'.

MY has a FRESH 'Fashion House', followed by another FRESH 'Fashion House'.

A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Driving', another 'Driving', 'Gene Simmons', and another 'Gene Simmons'.

AMC offers the movie 'Fargo', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation', then the movie 'Private Benjamin'.

BBC  -   
 [2:00 pm]    As Time Goes By - Episode 6;
 [2:40 pm]    Are You Being Served - Shedding The Load;
 [3:20 pm]    Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 6;
 [4:00 pm]    The Avengers, - Killer;
 [5:00 pm]    Footballers Wives - Episode 3;
 [6:00 pm]    BBC World News;
 [6:30 pm]    Everything Must Go - Episode 6;
 [7:00 pm]    The Benny Hill Show - Episode 11;
 [8:00 pm]    Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
 [8:30 pm]    Masterchef Goes Large - Episode 6;
 [9:00 pm]    Wire in the Blood - Ep 2 The Torment of Others;
 [11:00 pm]    Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 7;
 [11:30 pm]    Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
 [12:00 am]    Wire in the Blood - Ep 2 The Torment of Others;
 [2:00 am]    Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 7;
 [2:30 am]    Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
 [3:00 am]    The Vice - Ep. 1 Daughters;
 [5:00 am]    Crimefighters - Ep 3 Mind Your Manors;
 [5:30 am]    Crimefighters - Ep 4 Trouble On the Tracks;
 [6:00 am]    BBC World News.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Inside The Actors Studio', 'Six Feet Under', and another 'Six Feet Under'.

Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', and 'Russell Peters'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is James Baker.
Scheduled on a FRESH Colbert Report is Randy Newman.

History has 'Rome: Empire', another 'Rome: Empire', and 'Egypt: Engineering An Empire'.

IFC  -   
 [07:10 AM]    Media Lab Shorts Uploaded;
 [07:40 AM]    The Flats;
 [09:30 AM]    ¡Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas!;
 [11:00 AM]    The Young Girls of Rochefort;
 [01:10 PM]    The Flats;
 [02:55 PM]    Sunshine State;
 [05:20 PM]    The Young Girls of Rochefort;
 [07:30 PM]    ¡Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas!;
 [09:00 PM]    Rank;
 [10:40 PM]    Dust;
 [12:45 AM]    Short: Black Gulch;
 [01:00 AM]    Rank;
 [02:40 AM]    Dust;
 [04:45 AM]    IFC Short Film Showcase: October;
 [05:45 AM]    Shattered Glass.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has 'Dark Angel', then fills the night with 'Darkside'.

Sundance  -   
 [06:00 AM]    La Vie Promise;
 [07:30 AM]    Little Otik;
 [09:45 AM]    Being Bad;
 [10:00 AM]    Childstar;
 [11:45 AM]    The Last Days;
 [01:15 PM]    Molly and Mobarak;
 [02:45 PM]    I Am Trying to Break Your Heart;
 [04:30 PM]    The Moscow Skyscraper;
 [06:00 PM]    The Last Days;
 [07:30 PM]    Signe Chanel: Episode 5: The Collection;
 [08:00 PM]    The Hill: Episode 1: Fighting the Good Fight;
 [08:30 PM]    House of Boateng: Episode 8;
 [09:00 PM]    Mademoiselle and the Doctor;
 [10:30 PM]    The Moscow Skyscraper;
 [12:00 AM]    Condor: The First War on Terror;
 [01:30 AM]    Caravaggio;
 [03:05 AM]    Venus Boyz;
 [05:00 AM]    Mademoiselle and the Doctor.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM celebrates Kay Francis
 [6:00 AM]    Passion Flower (1930);
 [7:30 AM]    A Notorious Affair (1930);
 [8:45 AM]    Street of Women (1932);
 [10:00 AM]    The Keyhole (1933);
 [11:15 AM]    The House On 56th Street (1933);
 [12:30 PM]    Storm At Daybreak (1933);
 [2:00 PM]    Mandalay (1934);
 [3:15 PM]    British Agent (1934);
 [4:45 PM]    Stranded (1935);
 [6:00 PM]    The Feminine Touch (1941);

 [8:00 PM]    Paper Moon (1973)     [View Trailer];
 [10:00 PM]    The Miracle Worker (1962)     [View Trailer];
 [12:00 AM]    The Window (1949);
 [1:30 AM]    The Yearling (1946)     [View Trailer];
 [4:00 AM]    A Conversation with Gregory Peck (1999).    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Tuesday  -  10/10

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]    Complicated Women (2003);
 [7:00 AM]    Devotion (1931);
 [8:30 AM]    Week-End Marriage (1932);
 [9:45 AM]    This Marriage Business (1938);
 [11:00 AM]    Night Spot (1938);
 [12:00 PM]    Irene (1940);
 [1:45 PM]    Wings And The Woman (1941);
 [3:30 PM]    Riverboat Rhythm (1946);
 [4:45 PM]    A Lady Without Passport (1950);
 [6:15 PM]    Kiss Her Goodbye (1958);
 [8:00 PM]    Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964);
 [10:30 PM]    Gaslight (1944)     [View Trailer];
 [12:30 AM]    Gaslight (1940);
 [2:00 AM]    Dead of Winter (1987)     [View Trailer];
 [4:00 AM]    The Loved One (1965)     [View Trailer].    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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In this photo released today by Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Johnny Depp accepts the 'Courage to Care' award from Jennifer Lopez (right) at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles second Noche de Nios Gala on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006 in Beverly Hills, Calif. The star-studded gala, which raised $4.5 million, benefits Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
Photo by Bob Riha, Jr.
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Media Convert

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Ratings Up

Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann's tipping point came on a tarmac in Los Angeles six weeks ago. While waiting for his plane to take off he read an account of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's speech before the American Legion equating Iraq War opponents to pre-World War II appeasers.

The next night, on Aug. 30, Olbermann ended his MSNBC "Countdown" show with a blistering retort, questioning both the interpretation of history and Rumsfeld's very understanding of what it means to be an American.

It was the first of now five extraordinarily harsh anti-Bush commentaries that have made Olbermann the latest media point-person in the nation's political divide.

Since that first commentary, Olbermann's nightly audience has increased 69 percent, according to Nielsen Media Research. This past Monday 834,000 people tuned in, virtually double his season average and more than CNN competitors Paula Zahn and Nancy Grace. Cable kingpin and Olbermann nemesis Bill O'Reilly (two million viewers that night) stands in his way.

Keith Olbermann

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Comic book writer Frank Miller shows his Comic-Con Icon award backstage at Spike TV's Scream Awards 2006 at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, California October 7, 2006.
Photo by Gene Blevins
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typo_dylan

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Headlines McCaskill Fundraiser

Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox headlined a campaign fundraiser for Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, but his message was broader than one Senate race.

"Contrary to what (former House Speaker) Tip O'Neil said, politics is not local," Fox told McCaskill supporters Thursday at a restaurant in this St. Louis suburb. "What happens here does affect my three girls, my son, my wife and me, and the 100 million Americans living with a disease that could be helped by stem cell research."

The actor, who has Parkinson's disease, is a strong advocate of embryonic stem cell research. McCaskill has made support for the research a key part of her campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Jim Talent.

Michael J. Fox

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YouTube - The Lumberjack Song (German version)

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LennonOno Grant For Peace

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatle John Lennon, promoted world peace from a hotel room in Iceland on Sunday -- fully clothed this time -- and revealed plans to award two $50,000 peace grants on Lennon's birthday on Monday.

Ono, who famously held a "bed-in" for peace in a Montreal hotel room with Lennon in 1969, said she will give the LennonOno Grant For Peace to the global medical group Doctors Without Borders and the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights.

The LennonOno Grant was established in 2002 and Ono said she moved the award ceremony to Reykjavik from the United Nations headquarters in New York after discovering the unique beauty of the North Atlantic island.

Yoko Ono

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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$7 Million Take

Star Trek Auction

The first auction of official "Star Trek" memorabilia hit warp speed on Saturday when a determined bidder paid $576,000 for a model of the legendary science fiction franchise's starship Enterprise, helping drive the total for the three-day sale above $7 million.

All of the 1,000 lots of props, costumes, models and miniatures and other ephemera from the five "Star Trek" television series and 10 feature films on offer at Christie's auction house found buyers.

Virtually all sold for more than their pre-sale estimates. The total taking of $7,107,040, including commission, was far more than double what had been expected.

Star Trek Auction

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'CBGB' owner Hilly Kristal, is photographed at his club during an interview, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006 in New York. After Oct. 15, the legendary club that has hosted acts such as Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Blondie will close its doors for good, ending a 33 year run as Punks seminal music venue.
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams
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The MAiZE - World's Largest Corn Maze Company

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In Trouble For Praising Drugs

Graham Norton

Graham Norton, one of BBC television's top presenters, was in hot water after he revealed he had taken "loads of drugs" and hailed ecstasy as "just fantastic".

The openly gay Irishman had told Marie Claire: "The only time I took ecstasy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing. It was just fantastic -- really, really fun.

"I've tried loads of drugs, but it would really bug me if I got busted in the tabloids because I take them so rarely."

Asked about cocaine, he said: "I think that coke is middle-aged stuff. It's quite a slow drug that involves coffee tables. To me, it's a middle-class choice of drug."

Graham Norton

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Vidiot Speak
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Haunted Set

'Ghost Whisperer'

Jennifer Love Hewitt plays a woman who can communicate with the recently deceased in Ghost Whisperer, and the cast and crew are spooked in real life too.

She tells US chat show host Megan Mullally, "We've had lights move, literally three and a half inches to the left, as you're sitting there the lights move.

"We've had lights burst over actors' heads when they're playing people who don't believe in ghosts. A light will burst into a million pieces right over them.

"People are like, 'We're not guest-starring on that show!'

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Musician George Clinton arrives at the VH1 Hip Hop Honors event at at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York October 7, 2006.
Photo by Eric Thayer
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Old Fashioned Bunnies

Vegas Playboy Club

Flaunting bunnies, booze and blackjack, the first Playboy Club in nearly two decades opened in Las Vegas on Saturday night with high hopes that its time-tested combination of sex and celebrity will attract a new generation of high rollers.

With a distinctly vintage feel, Playboy bunnies wearing the distinctive ears and cottontail delivered drinks and dealt cards to a mostly male crowd at the Palms Casino Resort.

"There's a new generation ready to come out and play," Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner told Reuters before the party, saying the Playboy brand was just as relevant today as it was when he started the men's magazine in 1953.

Vegas Playboy Club

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A woman dressed up as a moor performs during a traditional festival in Crevillente, in the Valencia region, October 8, 2006. Villages all over Spain hold annual festivals to commemorate the 'Reconquista', the reconquest of Spain by Christians from the Moors, which was completed in 1492 after more than 700 years of Muslim rule in much of the country. Spanish villages are toning down traditional fiestas in which revellers blow up dummies representing the Prophet Mohammed for fear of offending Muslims, the newspaper El Pais reported on Monday.
Photo by Heino Kalis
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Archaeologists Find 18th-Century Store

Sutler

This history-rich Hudson River community has yielded a museum's worth of 18th-century military artifacts over the decades, from musket balls to human skeletons. But a colonial soldier's daily lot wasn't all fighting and bloodshed. They had their share of down time, and that's where the sutler came in, offering for sale two of the few diversions from frontier duty: alcohol and tobacco.

A five-year-long archaeological project has unearthed the 250-year-old site of a merchant's establishment that sold wine, rum, tobacco and other goods to the thousands of soldiers who passed through this region during the French and Indian War, when Fort Edward was the largest British military post in North America.

Sutler, derived from the Dutch word for someone who performs dirty work, was the name given to the merchants who arrived on the heels of the British army and sold what the redcoats wouldn't - or couldn't - provide at a frontier outpost. With the permission of military officials, sutlers set up shop near a fort's gates, taking advantage of the isolated location to do a brisk trade with off-duty soldiers and officers.

Sutler

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A pilot flies an experimental auto-gyro aircraft at Pounds field during a demonstration at Aviation Day, an event sponsored by the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum in Tyler, Texas, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006.
Photo by Dr. Scott M. Lieberman
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Medieval and Renaissance Food

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Take Aim At Muslim Youth

Islamic Superheroes

In Saudi Arabia, a gawky teenager is transformed into a hulking creature. In Paris, a historian chases legends about mystical gemstones. In South Africa, a boy discovers a sparkling rock with healing powers.

The characters are from a new genre of superheroes endowed with Muslim virtues and aimed at young Muslims in a comic book series called "The 99." Launched in July, it is being billed as the world's first superhero project drawn from Islamic culture.

Its creator, 35-year-old Naif Al-Mutawa, admits the series -- based on 99 heroes who embody the 99 attributes of God in Islam -- is tricky in a religion where attempts to personify God's power can spark protests and even death threats.

Islamic Superheroes

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In Memory

Claude Luter

Clarinettist and band-leader Claude Luter, who was one of the stars of the post-war Paris jazz scene and accompanied Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, died on Friday at the age of 83, his family has said.

The son of a musician, Luter discovered New Orleans jazz in his teens and began performing in Paris during the German occupation in World War II.

After the liberation he and his band became a fixture at the Lorientais, the first of the great Latin Quarter jazz clubs that were the centre of France's burgeoning musical and intellectual revival.

He met Armstrong at the Nice jazz festival in 1948, and the following year began a working relationship with Bechet which lasted until the American jazzman's death 10 years later.

Regarded as one of France's greatest exponents of traditional jazz, Luter was eclipsed by the emergence of a new generation playing be-bop and free jazz, but he continued performing until very recently.

Claude Luter

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A rhesus monkey drinks from a water tap in the outskirts of Jammu, India, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006. Wild life week is celebrated in India from October 2 to 8.
Photo by Channi Anand
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