Bartcop Entertainment - Monday, 24 September, 2001

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Monday

24 September, 2001

the worrier

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New TV Season Starts Tonight

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New TV Season

Prequels & Sequels


Most of the season's 30-odd new shows will premiere the week of Sept. 24, following decisions at the six major networks to push back debuts by a week after the Sept. 11 air attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon .

Among the new shows, one of the most talked-about is Fox's ''24,'' a series set in real time with Kiefer Sutherland playing an anti-terrorism government agent in a race against time to stop an assassination attempt against a presidential candidate.

``It's a totally thrilling pilot,'' said Matt Roush of TV Guide (note--TV Guide, and the Faux network are both owned by Rupert Murdoch), which named ``24'' its best new show.

Two more shows getting positive buzz are prequels, one involving ``Star Trek'' and another Superman.

UPN's ``Star Trek: Enterprise'' is set before the other series in the franchise when earthlings are just venturing out into space. Accordingly, many of the gizmos that Trekkies have come to cherish are still novelties and a certain level of distrust still exists between humans and other races.

The WB plans ``Smallville,'' a Tuesday show about the life of Superman in his youth before he became Superman.

``It's puberty with superpowers,'' Alfred Gough, one of the show's creators, told Entertainment Weekly. ``Clark Kent's parents do raise questions: Can he ever have a normal life and can he have sex? That clearly has never been explored before.''

Critics say, however, that not everything is sweetness and light in the fall schedule and predict that shows built around ''Seinfeld'' alumnus Jason Alexander, actor Jim Belushi and celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse are destined to self-destruct.

Lagasse's show ``Emeril,'' in which he plays himself; and Belushi's show ``According to Jim,'' in which he plays a hapless dad, both appeared on the annual list of ``Doomed New Shows'' published each year by the Boring Institute.

Roush was equally downbeat about Alexander's show ``Bob Patterson.'' He called it crude and unfunny.

``Alias'' airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on ABC;
``Emeril'' airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on NBC;
``24'' airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on Fox;
''Smallville airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on WB;
``Bob Patterson'' airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on ABC;
``Star Trek: Enterprise'' airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on UPN; and
``According to Jim'' airs Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. on ABC.

New TV Season

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Tonight, Only

Lord Of The Rings Trailer

LOTR 1

New Line Cinema will unveil a brand-new sneak-peek for its much-anticipated Fellowship of the Ring during the season premiere of Angel on the WB.

The new trailer, the third preview of Fellowship to be released, is bypassing theaters and will play just one time during Angel's 9-10 p.m. slot.

The first installment in the series, Fellowship follows unlikely hero Frodo Baggins and his rag-tag band of pals as they seek to destroy the titular ring.

LOTR Poster

While the trailer will only air on the WB once, it's expected that New Line will eventually show it in theaters. Directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Sean Astin and Viggo Mortensen, Fellowship is due to be released on December 19.

LOTR Trailer

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New York City

"We Shall Overcome"

We Shall Overcome

Dignitaries join hands while they sing "We Shall Overcome" at New York's Yankee Stadium, Sunday Sept. 23, 2001, during the "A Prayer for America" service.
Bottom row, from left are: Oprah Winfrey; New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; New York Gov. George Pataki; acting New Jersey Gov Donald T. DiFranceso. Back row, fourth from left are: Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton.
Photo by Richard Drew (AP)

'We Shall Overcome'

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News In The News

CNN - Identity Crisis Over?

One of the many things to end with the terrible events of Sept. 11 may be CNN's identity crisis.

At least CNN's new chairman, Walter Isaacson, hopes so. He said he has a clearer picture of the cable news network's role after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

``This tragic situation has helped us on our true mission and the vital importance of what we do,'' Isaacson said. ``Our true mission is to do hard reporting and smart analysis. It's to be reasoned and calm and to cover international news in a serious way.''

Before the attacks, all the changes CNN made over the past year - the layoffs, programming shuffles and hiring of Isaacson - hadn't changed one simple truth: Fox News Channel was nipping at CNN's heels and CNN didn't know what to do about it.

CNN tried to beat Fox by imitating it. Isaacson said that's over now.

The rest of the story.

www.cnn.com

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Another Telethon Story

Where Was Michael?

Michael Jackson's finely hewn nose is said to be out of joint after his offer to perform at Friday's "Tribute to Heroes" telethon was turned down.

Producers of the multi-network extravaganza, which raised millions for families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, "felt he didn't fit the spirit of the show," according to a source involved in the planning.

The source said producers worried Jackson might turn the benefit into a version of the self-coronation the King of Pop orchestrated at Madison Square Garden earlier this month.

Just about every star invited to perform or answer phones at the telethon said yes — one exception being Paul McCartney, who had to get to a family wedding on Martha's Vineyard (the ex-Beatle has a benefit performance of his own in the works).

Considering the telethon's star power (Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks, Paul Simon, Julia Roberts and Mariah Carey were a few who participated), it was amazingly free of ego, say backstage spies. "There was a sign that said, 'No applause,' but there was a lot of emotion. Sheryl Crow and other people were crying and hugging. But everybody was a professional. Rehearsals went like clockwork. I don't think we'll see anything like it again."

NY Daily News

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NYC Gossip Column

Cindy Adams!

The enemy the United States is sworn to take down is incomprehensible to the mind.

To burrow into the cavity of a zealot willing to die for his fanaticism, one must study his woman. The subject is one with which I am familiar.

Take traveling. His woman is relegated to the back of the bus. From Afghanistan's dusty byways, where camels are double-parked, to oil-rich Saudi, where superhighways are paved with Mercedes, she remains hobbled.

Cannot take a car. Forbidden a driver's license. Why? Because a driver's license affords mobility. His female is denied that which the American woman cherishes as her right. The ability to get up and go.

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, I visited a family living in the American compound. It grew late, but a conflict of events made my departure impossible. I offered to drive by myself. My hostess shuddered. Not permitted. "But I'm an American," I countered. "Please," they said. "It is the law even for foreign nationals."

A mutual friend was heading toward where I was staying. He had an empty car. I slid into the passenger seat. They pulled me out. "You cannot sit next to a man. It is not allowed." So I climbed into the back seat. They pulled me out. "A man may not give you a ride unless he is married to you."

Some turn-around hotels for international airline crews may boast sauna, pool and health club. Not even foreign women may use the facilities.

Movies are forbidden, because darkness equates with sin. No nightclubs, because dancing, music and alcohol are verboten. The younger generation of Osamas tryst with their teenage Fatimas in the neighborhood equivalent of a supermarket. She goes to buy vegetables. He goes to buy whatever. Their hands may not touch. Their eyes may. If she has a driver, he cannot help push the cart. He can only collect the bundles. Husbands, waiting to drive wives home, barely recognize which belongs to whom. In Jubail on the Persian Gulf, even in 120-degree heat, the women featured neck-to-ankle-to-wrist abayas, the opaque black cloak and matching babushka.

Cindy Adams

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In The News

More Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine

Yasmine Bleeth reportedly was on a 36-hour cocaine binge with the new boyfriend she met in rehab when she was arrested last week. The former "Baywatch" and "Nash Bridges" beauty was busted after cops found four syringes and what appeared to be cocaine in her purse, after she swerved her rental car off the road in Romulus, Mich. Star magazine reports that Bleeth was driving around boyfriend Paul Cerrito, who met her at Promises, a celeb rehab in Malibu, Calif. Aside from being a former drug addict, Bleeth's new beau has a less-than-savory family business: his mom, Vicki, runs Jon-Jon's, a strip club in Warren, Mich.

NY Post

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The Man and the Myths

Coltrane at 75

John Coltrane

More than any other performer of his time or ours, John Coltrane is a god we create, if not in our own image, then according to our desires and beliefs.

Today is the 75th anniversary of Coltrane's birth, and his influence on jazz and other forms of music shows no sign of waning. Beginning with "Naima" and "Giant Steps," several of his compositions have entered the standard repertory, and no jazz musician today would be playing "My Favorite Things," from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Sound of Music," had Coltrane not established its surprising potential for modal improvisation on a 1960 recording, transforming it from a sugary waltz into a hypnotic raga.

The most provocative of the CD's being released in time for John Coltrane's 75th anniversary is "The Olatunji Concert" (Impulse 314 589 120-2). It captures his last band, featuring the tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and the drummer Rashied Ali, performing a benefit for a Harlem cultural center created by the Nigerian percussionist Babatundi Olatunji. The concert, in April 1967, was three months before Coltrane's death.

...recommended is "Live Trane" (Pablo 7PACD-4433), a seven-CD box, which more than doubles the amount of commercially released material from the European tours Coltrane made from 1961 to 1963, and which finds him routinely topping his greatest studio work from the same period.

The most wide-ranging of the various anthologies is "Legacy" (Impulse 314 589 295-2), scheduled for release early next year. It's a four-CD set of performances wisely chosen by the tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, John Coltrane's son.

Still, probably the best introduction to Coltrane remains the intact albums on which his reputation was initially based: "Giant Steps," "My Favorite Things," "Live at the Village Vanguard" and "A Love Supreme."

A Whole Lot More About John Coltrane

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New! Updated!

BartCop Astrology


Check it out at BC Astrology.

"Guitar Greats" has been set aside for now, and replaced with an astrological look at the WTC Tragedy using various, relevant horoscopes, including charts for Manhattan and the US.

Very interesting reading!

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Music Tour News

Tony & k.d.

Tony & k.d.

Her current concert tour with Tony Bennett is a learning experience for k.d. Lang.

``I've learned not to complain about the schedule,'' the singer said in an interview with Newsday. ``It's kind of embarrassing to complain now. He's 75 years old and even when I have time off his band's still going.''

And she said that while she makes a big deal out of getting ready to perform, Bennett ``just gets up there and sings.''

``What I'm learning from him is kind of the easiness of it, the fact that it's what you do,'' she said of singing. ``It's like running water.''

k.d. & Tony

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New!

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more (like 'Dump Cake' & Peach Cobbler),
In The Kitchen With BartCop

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Another Awards Show

Radio Music Awards

Tim McGraw, Elton John, the Backstreet Boys and Sugar Ray will headline the third annual Radio Music Awards to be telecast live from the Aladdin Theatre of the Performing Arts on Oct. 26 on ABC.

Other performers and presenters scheduled so far include Lenny Kravitz, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, Stevie Nicks, Kid Rock, his former girlfriend Sheryl Crow, Snoop Dogg and Nelly Furtado.

The two-hour telecast recognizes the achievements of recording artists and radio personalities in various musical formats. Show hosts and nominees are to be announced at a later date. The Legend Award will be given to an artist for his significant contributions to the music industry.

Radio Music Awards

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NYC

Yankee Stadium

New York, New York

From left to right, Oprah Winfrey, New York City Mayor Giuliani, New York Gov. Pataki, Acting Governor of New Jersey, Donald DiFrancesco; and former President Bill Clinton hold hands and join the Harlem Boys Choir in singing "We Shall Overcome" at the interfaith memorial service at Yankee Stadium for the victims of the September 11 World Trade Center, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2001. Behind Governor Pataki, from left stands New York Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton and former New York City Mayor Ed Koch.
Photo by Stephan Savoia (AP)

NYC 2

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Another Perspective

Isaac Bonewits

Isaac Bonewits

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First Person Diary

Ray Berry

Ray has temporarily (I hope), suspended 'Bush-Toons'. In its place, he has put his daily diary of life in Manhattan since Tuesday.

Ray has great observational abilities, a way with words, and has still been able to keep his sense of humor.

To visit & read, www.bush-toons.com

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In The News

Who 'Made' McCartney A Vegan?

A new biography about the Beatles will say it was not Linda McCartney who converted her husband Paul to vegetarianism but his previous girlfriend, Jane Asher, a newspaper said on Sunday.

``It's absolute rubbish that Linda was the one who introduced Paul to vegetarianism,'' Taylor was quoted as saying in Britain's Observer newspaper.

Taylor, who was assistant to Beatles' manager Brian Epstein, said Asher and McCartney discovered a meat-free diet during a trip to India in 1967.

``It's amazing how Linda has been beatified since then and her campaigns for animal rights have certainly something to do with it.''

Paul McCartney

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TV News

Michael J. Fox on 'Spin City'

Michael J. Fox says his emotional but brief guest appearance this week on his former series, ``Spin City,'' is coming at the right time.

``It's like visiting your kid in college. You don't have to feed him or her.''

Fox said the guest spot was not easy on him physically because of his illness.

The first two of the three episodes featuring Fox are to air back to back on Tuesday. The third is set for next week.

Spin City

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In Memory

Isaac Stern

Tchaikovsky. Dvorak. Mahler. Gershwin. Horowitz. Bernstein. Marian Anderson. Bennie Goodman. Judy Garland. These are only some of the musical geniuses who have performed at Carnegie Hall.

Then there was Isaac Stern, the fiddler who saved it from the demolition crews. But his legacy extends far beyond.

Stern, who died Saturday at age 81 of complications from heart surgery, was one of the foremost violinists of the 20th century.

He was among the most recorded classical musicians in history, making well over 100 recordings, including some that are considered THE definitive interpretations.

He had a knack for discovering and cultivating the talents of succeeding generations. Among them: the violinists Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

And he had the astuteness, commitment and gift of gab to raise millions of dollars for the many causes he deemed worthy.

Survivors include his wife, Linda Reynolds Stern, whom he married in 1996; three children from a previous marriage: daughter Shira, a rabbi, and sons Michael and David, both conductors; and five grandchildren.

The Whole Obit

www.isaacstern.com

www.CarnegieHall.com

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