Jack Abramoff has pled to testify and to do time for his crimes. The
fallout--who will be swept up in the morass and what should Democrats do to
reform the ills that led to this mess?
Tom DeLay is getting the boot--can his successor be worse?
GW consults the best and the brightest from previous administrations about
Iraq as 11 U.S. Troops lose their lives. Will he listen? Or was this just
another stunt to get critics off his back? Do they really CARE what happens
in Iraq?
The NSA scandal and ensuing fallout won't disappear no matter how hard the
Bushites try. What next?
And I am working on a panel for Sunday night to discuss the legacy of Ariel
Sharon, the changes that are inevitable in the region now that he is gravely
ill. Who will fill the leadership vacuum? What will happen to Israel, to
the peace process, to the Palestinians?
And all the fun topics we can cram in because we will NEED them.
Sunday night we are joined by Marty (or is it Martha?) from
BartCopEntertainment to review the week.
Oh, and don't
forget to say a prayer (or something) for Pat Robertson's soul (if he has
one).
Howard Zinn: After the War (progressive.org)
The war against Iraq, the assault on its people, the occupation of its cities, will come to an end, sooner or later. The process has already begun. The first signs of mutiny are appearing in Congress. The first editorials calling for withdrawal from Iraq are beginning to appear in the press. The anti-war movement has been growing, slowly but persistently, all over the country.
Jim Hightower: DELAY'S CHURCH PROBLEM (jimhightower.com)
Poor ol' Tom DeLay - when it rains it pours. There are his five congressional reprimands for ethics violations, the two indictments in Texas for money laundering, the loss of his position as house majority leader, his entanglement in the scandals of Jack Abramoff, news that only 36 percent of people in his district plan to vote for him... and, now, here come the churches.
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In particular, the story of "Eulogy" was disconcerting. Back home an officer read a list of soldiers "not returning home" from Iraq, and did not include PFC Miller, for whatever reason he thought suicide in Iraq was unmentionable... but then that's consistent with not showing flag-draped coffins to the public ... and not meeting with Cindy Sheehan... Let's just not admit we have a major problem on our hands.
I was building a pyramid on the top of Marty Balin's house back in 1978. Marty had quit the Jefferson Airplane/Starship for the second time …and he was hiding out…..Bang Bang Bang…it was Grace Slick pounding on his front door…and she was drunk…."I know you're in there Marty…open the fuckin' door!" Marty made us all hide in the closet until she left….after she was gone he said…"If I'm still playing music with these guys in my 60's, I'm going to call the band the "Jefferson Wheelchair"!!!!
I just got through viewing a nostalgic trip back to the 60's and the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco with a band that Time magazine, in 1968, called the "American Beatles" ! I was looking forward to a live and loud flashback to the "Fillmore" and the "Avalon" and Golden Gate Park but what I got was a cacophonic collage of TV shows and rooftop reminiscing from the 6 original members of the band….Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen, Spencer Dryden and the 5th Beatle or the 7th member, Bill Thompson who has always been their manager and official story teller.
The documentary started out with a song written by Donovan Called "The Fat Angel" with the lyric "Fly Jefferson Airplane…get you there on time" an ode to the high flying drug taking band. We get an historic review via film footage of the original band with the then lead singing duet of Marty Balin and Signe Anderson (beautiful footage of "It's no Secret") but Signe want to raise kids and so the band looked at the two best San Francisco replacement prospects…Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company and Grace Slick with the Great Society…..Janice was busy so they got Grace and she brought the first 2 hit songs with her…"Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit". They recorded "Surrealistic Pillow" and the Airplane took off.
This whole film about the Jefferson Airplane was narrated by the Jefferson Wheelchair ! A bunch of old farts sitting around and talking about their younger days…..Hey remember when John Luc Goddard and D.A. Pennebaker got us to play up on that rooftop in Manhatten…before the Beatles….Can you believe we were on the Perry Como show singing "Crown of Creation"…Cool….remember when we were on the Smothers Brothers show singing "White Rabbit"….that was Far Out….remember the Monterey Pop Festival singing "High Flyin' Bird" (Judy Henske was better) Jimi and the Who and the Mamas and Papas were there ….remember the mansion at 2400 Fulton in SF by the park…yeah all those free gigs in Golden Gate…on and on and on………………….
Two stories that didn't come out in the film but were told to me by Marty….
The Airplane were invited to the Nixon White house and Grace was going to spike the punch with LSD…but decided not to………………
One Saturday morning when all the Airplane were living at 2400 Fulton St., the doorbell rang and a chauffeur asked if Mr. Paul McCartney could come in…..Marty told me that Paul had the rough tapes of "Sergeant Pepper" and they lit up, listened and had their minds "Blown"….
I love nostalgia but this movie had a poorly mastered and digitized soundtrack. The editing was really choppy and wandered from the essence. They story ended with the 1996 induction into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" for the Airplane and a very cool solo of "Embryonic Journey" by Jorma.
Purple Gene gives "Fly Jefferson Airplane" 6 tabs of Owsley purple sunshine Acid out of 10 for having some really far out footage but basically being a "Bad Trip"!!
P.S. There were some great shots of stoned hippie chicks twirling around ! (I think that's my ex-girlfriend right here!)
CBS opens the night with the movie 'Enough', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Book Of Daniel', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Eva Longoria hosting, music by Korn.
The late, late 'SNL' is supposed to be from 12/05/98, with Vince Vaughn hosting, music by Lauryn Hill.
ABC has LIVE'NFL Football', followed on the left coast by the movie 'The Game'.
The WB here fills the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball', where the Lakers visit the Clips.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MAD TV' is FRESH, with Michael Rapaport.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', followed by the movie 'Jaws'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween', followed by the movie 'The Goonies', then the movie 'Tremors II: Aftershocks'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 6;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 5 And God Created Woman;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 47;
[4pm] 'Faking It' - Chess Player to Soccer Manager;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 9;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Xemia;
[6pm] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 1;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Allen;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 1;
[8:30pm] 'Creature Comforts';
[9pm] 'The Robinsons' - Episode 1;
[9:40pm] 'The Robinsons' - Episode 2;
[10:20pm] 'The Robinsons' - Episode 3;
[11pm] 'The Robinsons' - Episode 4;
[11:40pm] 'The Robinsons' - Episode 5;
[12:20am] 'The Robinsons' - Episode 6;
[1am] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[1:40am] 'The Office' - Episode 2;
[2:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[3am] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[3:40am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[4:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[5am] 'Without Prejudice' - Episode 3;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Apollo 13', followed by the FRESH (but pre-taped) 'Moving Image Salute To Ron Howard'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Larry The Cable Guy: Git-R-Done', and 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Predicted: 9/11', 'Grounded On 9/11', and 'Wild West Tech'.
IFC -
[6AM] SLC Punk! (1999);
[7:45AM] Short: Bean Cake;
[8AM] Blind Swordsman #1: The Life And Opinion Of Masseur Ichi (1962);
[9:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[10AM] The Red Violin (1998);
[12:30PM] The Daytrippers (1996);
[2PM] Blind Swordsman #1: The Life And Opinion Of Masseur Ichi (1962);
[3:45PM] Short: Bean Cake;
[4PM] At the IFC Center #9 (1642);
[4:30PM] The Red Violin (1998);
[6:45PM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[7PM] Greg the Bunny: "Sleazy Rider" (2005);
[7:15PM] Greg the Bunny: "2001-1: Space & Stuff" (2005);
[7:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #3 (2005);
[8PM] Your Friends And Neighbors (1998);
[9:45PM] Fargo (1996);
[11:30PM] Dancing At The Blue Iguana (2000);
[1:45AM] Fargo (1996);
[3:30AM] Chop-Socky: Cinema Hong Kong (2004);
[4:45AM] Three Tales (2002). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Manticore', followed by the movie 'Caved In: Prehistoric Terror'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] Celestial Clockwork;
[8AM] New Waterford Girl;
[9:45AM] The Firefly Man;
[10AM] Dame La Mano;
[12PM] Career Girls;
[1:30PM] In Short: Festival 2;
[2PM] Celestial Clockwork;
[3:30PM] The Tune;
[4:45PM] New Waterford Girl;
[6:30PM] In Short: Festival 2;
[7PM] Duel;
[8:30PM] The Mighty Celt;
[10PM] Super Size Me;
[11:45PM] Tarnation;
[1:30AM] Career Girls;
[3AM] Duel;
[4:35AM] The Mighty Celt. (ALL TIMES EST)
(From L to R) Viggo Mortensen, Robert Redford, Phillip Seymoour Hoffman and Deborah Voigt laugh as they pose for photographers during a break in the New York Times Arts and Leisure Weekend discussions in New York, January 6, 2006.
Photo by Chip East
Two more NBC affiliates chose not to air the network's new drama "The Book of Daniel," which features an Episcopal priest with a gay son, the network said Friday.
Four affiliates nationally have rejected the series (set for a two-hour premiere 9 p.m. EST Friday). Conservative Christian groups have campaigned against the series.
KBTV in Beaumont, Texas, and WGBC in Meridian, Miss., were the latest stations to reject the series. Earlier, NBC affiliates KARK in Little Rock, Ark., and WTWO in Terre Haute, Ind., said they wouldn't air it.
NBC has 230 affiliates nationally, and a spokeswoman noted that the four affiliates make up less than 1 percent of NBC's national audience.
'Le Grand Enfant', a member of the Phunny Phorty Phellows, sips from a FEMA bottle as he dances in the streets of New Orleans before boarding a street car to kick off the Carnival season Friday, Jan. 6, 2006.
Photo by Ben Margot
Tucked away in a corner of the vast hall, all but lost amid the glistening white luxury cruisers and speedy runabouts, five of James Bond's film dreamboats were showing their stuff - nautical, but hardly naughty.
The "Boats of Bond" include a tow sled from the 1965 film, "Thunderball," the fourth of the Bond series; a "bath-o-sub" from "Diamonds Are Forever," made in 1971; the Amazon chase boat from "Moonraker;" the Neptune submarine from "For Your Eyes Only," 1981, and "Q's jet boat" from the 1999 film, "The World is Not Enough."
Other Bond items on display include a copy of Odd Job's "death hat" from "Goldfinger," a briefcase from "From Russia With Love," a throwing star from "You Only Live Twice," a photograph of "Dr. No," and a SPECTRE ring from "Thunderball."
No job in the theater lasts forever. At "The Phantom of the Opera," it only seems that way.
On Monday, Jan. 9, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical - with performance number 7,486 - becomes the longest running show in Broadway history, surpassing another of the British composer's megahits, "Cats." And while statistics can be trotted out extolling the longevity and profitability of the production, it's the people, both on-stage and behind the scenes, who make the musical work at each performance.
Some have been there from the very beginning: Jan. 26, 1988, when "Phantom," the tale of a deformed composer haunting the Paris Opera House and his love for the beautiful soprano Christine, first opened at the Majestic Theatre.
In 1988, the New York production cost a then-record $8 million. Today, the figure would be $12 million. "Phantom" won seven Tony Awards, including the best-musical prize as well as the Tony for its original star, Michael Crawford.
The famed 'Del Monte Note', a $20 bill with a Del Monte sticker on it that sold on Ebay for $10,000 is seen at the Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers in Dallas, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005. The $20 note which is estimated to go for $20,000- $25,000, will be auctioned in their upcoming Signature Auction, to be held January 6 and 7, 2006 in Orlando, Fla.
Photo by Tony Gutierrez
Naveen Andrews, who plays Iraqi soldier Sayid on the hit show "Lost," has acknowledged that he fathered a child while briefly separated from his longtime girlfriend.
Andrews' publicist said that Andrews and actress Barbara Hershey were separated for a "brief period" last year, during which Andrews had an encounter with another woman. He recently learned that he is the father of her baby boy.
"I have every intention of assuming appropriate responsibility for the child," Andrews said Friday in a statement released to The Associated Press.
Former British rocker Gary Glitter was formally charged Friday with committing obscene acts with two girls aged 10 and 11 at a Vietnamese resort town, prosecutors said.
Glitter, 61, who won fame as a flamboyant glam rocker in the 1970s, is accused of kissing and engaging in other physical acts with the girls at his rental home in the southern coastal town of Vung Tau, prosecutor Nguyen Van Xung said.
The charges carry prison terms of three to seven years, said Xung, who is deputy chief prosecutor in southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province.
Glitter is perhaps best known for his song "Rock and Roll (Part 2)," still often played at sporting events.
Acrobats of the Chinese National Circus balance on chairs during their 'Ying Yang' performance in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary Islands January 5, 2006. The circus featuring some 60 acrobats is directed by gymnast Li Xining and is currently touring Spain. Picture taken January 5, 2006.
Photo by Juan Medina
A court ruled Friday that hundreds of rare Elvis Presley records and pieces of memorabilia collected by a woman who stole almost $1 million from her employer must be auctioned to repay her debt.
Lincoln Crown Court in eastern England said money raised at the auction should be used to repay Julie Wall's employer, North Kesteven District Council.
Prosecutors said Wall, of Sleaford, eastern England, stole the money over a 10-year period while she worked as a cashier for the council, and spent the money at collectors' fairs and specialty stores across Britain.
Dennison told the court that Wall's job at the council, where she had worked for more than 30 years, was to deposit takings from the parking meters into the council's bank account. Instead, she pocketed the money, making up to $18,000 a month.
A plume of hot steam bellows from Augustine Volcano, about 75 miles west of Homer, Alaska, Wednesday Jan.4, 2006. The unrest of the volcano continues with seismicity rates increasing, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Photo by Laurent Dick
A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp's Fountain - a porcelain urinal - with a hammer, police said.
Duchamp's 1917 piece - an ordinary white, porcelain urinal that's been called one of the most influential works of modern art - was slightly chipped in the attack at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the museum said Thursday. It was removed from the exhibit for repair.
The suspect, a Provence resident whose identity was not released, already vandalized the work in 1993 - urinating into the piece when it was on display in Nimes, in southern France, police said.
A 2004 poll of 500 arts figures ranked Fountain as the most influential work of modern art - ahead of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, and Guernica, Picasso's depiction of war's devastation.
Lou Rawls, who earned fame with his glorious voice and respect through his prodigious fundraising for the United Negro College Fund, died Friday of cancer.
With his wife, Nina, at his bedside, Rawls died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was hospitalized last month for treatment of lung and brain cancer, said his publicist, Paul Shefrin. Rawls' family and Shefrin said the singer was 72, although other records indicate he was 70.
A longtime community activist, Rawls played a major role in United Negro College Fund telethons that raised more than $200 million. He often visited and performed at black colleges.
Rawls was raised on the South Side of Chicago by his grandmother, who shared her love of gospel with him. He also was influenced by doo-wop and harmonized with his high school classmate Sam Cooke. The two friends were part of groups such as the Teenage Kings of Harmony.
When he moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s, Rawls was recruited for the Chosen Gospel Singers, then moved on to The Pilgrim Travelers. He enlisted in 1955 as a paratrooper in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. Sgt. Rawls rejoined The Pilgrim Travelers three years later.
Rawls performed with Dick Clark at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959. Late that year, Rawls was singing for $10 a night plus pizza at Pandora's Box in Los Angeles when he was spotted by Capitol Records producer Nick Venet, who invited him to audition. He was signed by the label soon after.
In 1966, Rawls' "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing" topped the charts and earned his first two Grammy nominations. He also opened for The Beatles in Cincinnati.
Rawls also appeared in 18 movies, including "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Blues Brothers 2000," and 16 television series, including "Fantasy Island" and "The Fall Guy." He voiced Garfield the cat in the animated project "Here Comes Garfield."
Along with his wife, Rawls is survived by four children: Louanna Rawls, Lou Rawls Jr., Kendra Smith and Aiden Rawls.
Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died Friday. He was 62.
Thompson, whose role in the 1968 massacre did not become widely known until decades later, died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Alexandria, hospital spokesman Jay DeWorth said.
Early in the morning of March 16, 1968, Thompson, door-gunner Lawrence Colburn and crew chief Glenn Andreotta came upon U.S. ground troops killing Vietnamese civilians in and around the village of My Lai.
They landed the helicopter in the line of fire between American troops and fleeing Vietnamese civilians and pointed their own guns at the U.S. soldiers to prevent more killings.
Colburn and Andreotta had provided cover for Thompson as he went forward to confront the leader of the U.S. forces. Thompson later coaxed civilians out of a bunker so they could be evacuated, and then landed his helicopter again to pick up a wounded child they transported to a hospital. Their efforts led to the cease-fire order at My Lai.
In 1998, the Army honored the three men with the prestigious Soldier's Medal, the highest award for bravery not involving conflict with an enemy. It was a posthumous award for Andreotta, who had been killed in battle three weeks after My Lai.
A combination of two undated handout photographs shows Mischief the cat before (L) and after losing weight. Mischief lost 5kg (11 lb) in nine months and won Britain's pet slimmer of the year competition in 2005.
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