'Best of TBH Politoons'
Gone, But Not Forgotten
Erin Hart Show
Due to changes in business and at Entercom, several live positions at 710 KIRO were eliminated, including the Erin Hart Show, which will be replaced by the syndicated show "When Radio Was".
Erin will remain at KIRO and fill-in when needed.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Craig Roberts: A Challenge That Cannot Be Ignored (antiwar.com)
Former vice president Al Gore gave what I believe to be the most important political speech in my lifetime, and the New York Times, "the newspaper of record," did not report it. Not even excerpts. ... By ignoring Gore's speech, is the New York Times signaling to Bush that the newspaper is willing to be a lap dog in exchange for not being prosecuted?
Paul Krugman: First, Do More Harm (The New York Times)
It's widely expected that President Bush will talk a lot about health care in his State of the Union address. He probably won't boast about his prescription drug plan, whose debut has been a Katrina-like saga of confusion and incompetence. But he probably will tout proposals for so-called "consumer driven" health care.
Molly M. Ginty: Life Before Roe v. Wade (Choice! Magazine. Posted on Alternet.org)
More than thirty years later, three people who helped provide abortions before Roe tell their stories.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Racism or Bad Behavior?
Black students are under fire at America's schools.
Froma Harrop's Latest Column (creators.com)
It turns out that up to a third of the money Chile's workers put in their private accounts had vanished into the pockets of the companies that were investing it. Chilean senator-elect Guido Girardi recently expressed the anger of many when he promised: "I am going to do away with these thieves in jackets and ties. We are going to defend the citizenry from these funds that rob people of their pensions."
Natalie Nichols: Jesus Is Hot! (lacitybeat.com)
The self-righteous demand control of Jesus' image, even as they distort his teachings to conform to far more earthly ideals, using his words of inclusion to exclude.
Laura Barcella: Life 'After Innocence' (AlterNet.org)
A powerful new documentary explores the struggle of seven former prisoners, newly exonerated of horrible crimes.
Pamela Zoslov: Til Death Do They Part: Two cartoonists muse on the merits of matrimony (freetimes.com)
A message of optimism, all the more persuasive because it comes from a man well known for his misanthropy. If R. Crumb can find domestic contentment, then by golly, there's hope for the rest of us.
Voices of Choice (voicesofchoice.org)
Physicians Who Provided Abortions Before Roe v. Wade: A Multimedia Project
Wayne Lammers & Pete Levin: GOP PARTY MONSTERS
Scroll down for mp3 samples of satiric songs.
The Daily Show: Corrupt Republican Leaders (Video)
January 23 - Vote for Avery Ant
Avery Ant
Hubert's Poetry Corner
BONER EXPRESS
Purple Gene Reviews
'Carnival in Rio'
Purple Gene's Mini-review of the travelogue "Carnival in Rio" (1983)
Directed by Shep Morgan:
I just couldn't pass this up….a bad bootleg copy of an all expenses paid "Booty Call" for the now Governor of the great state of California, Arnold "The Ass" Schwarzenegger, called "Carnival in Rio". This priceless piece of film footage may be old news to some but for me it was a perfect political piece………….
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cloudy & cold.
No new flags.
Amazon To Launch Online Talk Show
Bill Maher
Online retail giant Amazon.com said on Thursday that it planned to launch a half-hour Web-based talk show this summer hosted by television personality Bill Maher and featuring author and celebrity interviews and musical performances.
"Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher" is produced by Amazon and will be streamed live on Thursdays beginning June 1.
Amazon will show a preview episode of the series at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, but consumers can see highlights online starting next Tuesday. Musician Rob Thomas, authors Stephen King and Armistead Maupin and actress Toni Collette will be Maher's guests in the preview.
Bill Maher
Scholarship Includes Dorm Room
J.D. Salinger
A scholarship named for writer J.D. Salinger will allow young writers with "quirky brilliance" to literally follow in his footsteps at Ursinus College.
Recipients of the newly created scholarship, announced Thursday, will get to live in Salinger's old dorm room at Ursinus, where the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" spent the fall semester of 1938.
The $25,000 annual award was developed by English professors Jon Volkmer and Matthew Kozusko and is designed for creative writers with distinctive voices and unusual perspectives - but not necessarily the best grades.
J.D. Salinger
Sirius Complains Show Illegally Rebroadcast
Howard Stern
Usually, complaints to U.S. communications regulators about Howard Stern are aimed at the shock radio personality, not made on his behalf.
But since his move to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., the company has complained to the Federal Communications Commission that Stern's show is being illegally rebroadcast on two stations in New York and New Jersey, a Sirius spokesman said on Thursday.
"It's an issue we're addressing and we are educating these people as to our rights," said Patrick Reilly, a spokesman for Sirius. "Given the quality of Howard's show, listening to it on a pirate radio is no way to listen to it."
The FCC had no immediate comment.
Howard Stern
Plans One More World Tour
B.B. King
While other 80-year-olds might dust off their rockers, blues dynamo B.B. King will be rocking and rolling when he launches what he says will be his final world tour later this year.
King will begin an international "Farewell Tour" in March, part of a domestic tour that starts Feb. 16 in Chicago, King's publicist, Jerry Digney, said in a news release Wednesday.
King said he will continue to make U.S. concert appearances after the tour.
B.B. King
Divorce News
Barkin - Perelman
Ron Perelman, the billionaire head of Revlon Corp., is seeking a divorce from his wife of five years, actress Ellen Barkin, the New York Post and gossip columnist Liz Smith reported on Friday.
Quoting sources, the Post said Perelman served divorce papers on his fourth wife on Thursday at the couple's Manhattan mansion. Perelman, 62, is worth an estimated $6 billion and according to Forbes Magazine is the 34th richest man in America.
The tabloid, quoting unidentified sources, reported that Barkin was "knocked for a loop" when she was served with the divorce papers. "She's shocked. She wasn't expecting it," the source told the Post.
Barkin - Perelman
Renewed For 2 Seasons
'America's Next Top Model'
UPN said Thursday it has renewed its reigning hit, "America's Next Top Model," for two more rounds.
"Model," which returns for its sixth cycle in March, isn't expected to undergo any significant changes, just "another season of high fashion and high drama," UPN president Dawn Ostroff said during the Television Critics Assn. press tour. The renewal covers a seventh and eighth cycle.
'America's Next Top Model'
Kills 'South Park' Episode
Tom Cruise
UK TV viewers will not get to see an episode of South Park which shows Nicole Kidman and fellow Scientologist John Travolta attempting to coax a fictional Tom Cruise character out of a closet, with Kidman saying: "Don't you think this has gone on long enough? It's time for you to come out of the closet. You're not fooling anyone."
Naturally, the robustly heterosexual Top Gun star took exception to this when Trapped in the Closet aired in the US. The episode also showed Stan - believed by the Cruise character to be the reincarnation of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard - having a pop at Cruise's acting abilities, and Cruise reportedly waved the legal big stick at Paramount and threatened to sue if the offending programme was ever shown again.
Tom Cruise
Not An Intellectual
Paris Hilton
Money can't buy happiness, or so the saying goes. Nor, as evidenced by Paris Hilton's recent deposition in a slander lawsuit, can it buy brainpower.
When questioned on the last name of a companion identified as Terry, who was with her on the night of the reported run-in with Graff, Hilton replied, "It is like a weird Greek name. Like, Douglas."
Hilton attributed her confusion about where the article might have been republished to the fact that she spent the summer in Europe, where she was faced with a language barrier.
"I was in Europe the whole summer, and all there is is like French," she explained. "I didn't see anything because I wasn't in America."
Paris Hilton
Agrees to Start Rehab
Leif Garrett
Former 1970s teen idol Leif Garrett agreed Friday to enter a strict drug-diversion program for violating probation in a cocaine case even as he faces a new charge of heroin possession.
Garrett, 44, agreed to enter the program during an appearance before a Superior Court commissioner who ordered him released from jail and commended him for choosing the option, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Garrett previously had been ordered into drug treatment, which he failed. The commissioner ended that program Friday and ordered him into the diversion program, which is "much more intense," Robison said.
Leif Garrett
Find Tomb Under Roman Forum
Archaeologists
Archaeologists digging beneath the Roman Forum have discovered a 3,000-year-old tomb that pre-dates the birth of ancient Rome by several hundred years.
Archaeologists were excavating under the level of the ancient forum, a popular tourist site, when they dug up the tomb, which they suspect is part of an entire necropolis, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
State TV quoted experts as saying the tomb appeared to date to about 1,000 B.C., meaning the people who constructed the necropolis pre-dated the ancient Romans by hundreds of years.
Archaeologists
Europe Buries its Head in the Sand
US Tortures
The United States is hardly a bastion of human rights, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. Its the only country in the world which legally justifies the torture of prisoners. Europeans, too, are found wanting -- particularly in their relations with Russia and China.
In its annual report on the state of human rights worldwide, Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused both the United States and Europe of major violations. Most of its vile, though, was reserved for the Bush Administration, saying that the torture and abuse of terror suspects was part of a "deliberate" and "shameful" White House strategy.
The report, presented in Washington, said that the abuse of prisoners by Americans could not be "reduced to a few bad apples at the bottom of the barrel."
For the rest, US Tortures
In Memory
Anthony Franciosa
Anthony Franciosa, whose strong portrayals of moody, troubled characters made him a Hollywood star in the 1950s and '60s but whose combative behavior on movie sets hampered his career, has died, his publicist said Friday. He was 77.
Franciosa died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center after suffering a massive stroke, publicist Dick Guttman said. The actor's wife, Rita, and children were present. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime friend, visited the family later, Guttman said.
Franciosa was part of a new wave in the mid-20th century who revolutionized film acting with their introspective, intensely realistic approach to their roles. Most of them were schooled in the method acting of New York's Actors Studio. They included Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters and Paul Newman.
Franciosa was once married to Winters, who died last weekend.
From his first important film role as the brother of a drug addict in "A Hatful of Rain," Franciosa became known for his portrayals of complicated young men. He received a 1956 Tony nomination for his performance in the role he created on Broadway, then an Oscar nod. In 1957, the actor appeared in three other films, "This Could Be the Night," "A Face in the Crowd" and "Wild Is the Wind."
Franciosa's career continued in high gear with such films as "The Long, Hot Summer," "The Naked Maja" (as Goya), "The Story on Page One," "Period of Adjustment," "Rio Conchos" and "The Pleasure Seekers."
The actor's behavior on movie productions became the subject of Hollywood gossip. The stories alleged fiery disputes with directors, sulking in his dressing room, outbursts with other actors.
He was born Anthony Papaleo on Oct. 25, 1928, in New York City. He was 1 when his father disappeared, and the boy grew up tough in Manhattan slums. "Getting in the first blow was something I learned in childhood," he once said.
Besides Winters, Franciosa was married to writer Beatrice Bakalyar and real estate agent Judy Kanter, with whom he had a daughter, Nina. His lasting marriage was to Rita Thiel, a German fashion model. They had sons Christopher and Marco.
Anthony Franciosa
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