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Matt Miller: Make 150,000% Today (money.cnn.com)
Looking for a great return on investment? Hire a lobbyist.
Molly Ivins: 'Iraq the disaster, officially speaking' (smirkingchimp.com)
"The Iraq war has been a disaster."--CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour.
Matthew Rothschild: Cindy Sheehan and Beverly Young Aren't the First to Get Booted for T-shirts (progressive.org)
The booting of Cindy Sheehan and Beverly Young from the Capitol during the State of the Union Address because of their T-shirts was not an isolated event. In the Bush Age, such hostility to free speech has become all too common. Students have been booted from school, shoppers from malls, protesters from Bush rallies, simply as a result of the shirts on their fronts.
Arianna Huffington: It's the National Security, Stupid
What Dems need to be saying again and again: Iraq has made us less safe at home, and less able to handle crises worldwide.
Jim Hightower: EQUIP THE GRUNTS! (.jimhightower.com)
There's an old bumpersticker that says: "It'll be a great day when our schools get all the money that they need and the Pentagon has to hold bake sales." Well, guess who is now having to hold bake sales to get the supplies they need? Not the Pentagon itself, of course - its official budget is half-a-trillion dollars a year. But the grunts - the soldiers putting their lives on the line in Bush's war - are so inadequately supplied by the warmongering Bushites that they must turn to family members, churches, or charity to get vital battle gear.
Fred Vogelstein: Mastering the Art of Disruption (money.cnn.com)
Move over, Jack Welch. From Apple to Pixar, Steve Jobs is showing why he's the model CEO for the 21st century.
Hubert's Poetry Corner
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started out sunny, but by late afternoon a heavy had fog rolled in.
Added 2 new flags - Aruba and Saint Vincent & The Grenadines.
Visited Oprah
Dave Chappelle
Dave Chappelle told Oprah Winfrey he was stressed out and not crazy or on drugs when he abruptly left his hit Comedy Central show last spring during production.
In his first television interview since ditching "Chappelle's Show" in May, the comedian said that after he signed a $50 million deal for the third and fourth seasons in August 2004, too many people were trying to control him and his show.
The provocative comedian denied reports that his mysterious departure was caused by mental or drug problems. But he told Winfrey that other people were trying to get him to take psychotic medication when he decided to leave the show and country, without telling anyone except his brother before he left.
Chappelle stressed that the fame that grew as his show became increasingly popular wasn't the problem, but the environment he faced at work.
Dave Chappelle
5 Second Tape Delay
Super Bowl
ABC is putting a five-second defensive line between the Super Bowl and television viewers.
The tape delay, for the game itself as well as the pre-game, halftime and post-game entertainment, is an apparent echo of the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" that marred the 2004 broadcast on CBS.
The delay, according to ABC, is the first-ever in the 40-year history of the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl
Revamping
'Lestat'
Can a musical about vampires -- with music by Elton John -- rise from the dead after reviewers called it lifeless, dreary and dull and did their best to drive wooden stakes through its heart?
That's the problem facing "Lestat," a Broadway-bound musical based on Anne Rice's best-selling "The Vampire Chronicles," which just finished a six-week run in San Francisco, grossing $4.3 million but at the expense of those life-threatening reviews.
The producers of "Lestat" are revamping the show and hope that a newly hired creative consultant can revive it. They have pushed its New York opening back from April 13 to April 25 with previews beginning March 25.
'Lestat'
Decide to Split
Crow - Armstrong
Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow have split, the couple announced in a joint statement Friday night.
"After much thought and consideration we have made a very tough decision to split up. We both have a deep love and respect for each other and we ask that everyone respect our privacy during this very difficult time," the statement said.
Crow - Armstrong
Engagement News
Cox - Mohr
Jay Mohr and Nikki Cox are engaged, Cox's publicist announced Friday.
Cox, 27, was previously engaged to comedian Bob Goldthwait.
Mohr, 35, was married to model Nicole Chamberlain for six years. They had one child together before divorcing in 2004.
Cox - Mohr
Checks Into Rehab
Leif Garrett
Former teen idol Leif Garrett has voluntarily checked into a strict live-in drug rehabilitation program to "make sure he doesn't fall off the wagon," his attorney said Thursday.
Garrett, 44, told a Superior Court commissioner Thursday he needed more help than what he was getting at an outpatient treatment program. The decision came after the actor-singer failed a recent drug test, said attorney Andrew Flier.
Garrett agreed to enter the outpatient program for violating probation in a cocaine case stemming from a 2004 arrest.
Leif Garrett
February Court Date
Gary Glitter
Vietnam will try 61-year-old British glam rocker Gary Glitter for child molestation in late February, an official said on Friday.
Police investigators have said they found no grounds to charge the 1970s rocker, whose real name is Paul Gadd, with raping children, a much more serious offence that can carry the death penalty.
Glitter has denied allegations that he molested girls as young as 12, insisting he was helping them with their English.
Gary Glitter
Watch to Be Auctioned
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly's widow, Maria Elena Holly, will auction several items of the rock 'n' roll legend's, including the watch he was wearing when he died in 1959.
Holly wore a diamond-and-white gold Omega wristwatch, a gift from his wife, "the day the music died" on Feb. 3, 1959, when he and singers Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash in Iowa. Holly was 22.
The watch is inscribed "Buddy Holly 12-1-58," the date she gave it to him as an early Christmas present, and was recovered at the crash site. Later, Holly's father, Laurence, wore it in honor of his son in the family's hometown of Lubbock, Tex.
Buddy Holly
Director Arrested
Lee Tamahori
"James Bond" director Lee Tamahori was ordered to appear in court Feb. 24 following his arrest for allegedly approaching an undercover police officer and offering to perform a sex act for money, authorities said Thursday.
Tamahori's directing credits include Pierce Brosnan's 2002 James Bond film "Die Another Day" and last year's "xXx: State of the Union," starring Ice Cube and Samuel L. Jackson.
City attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said the director was dressed in a black wig and off-the-shoulder dress when he approached an undercover police officer in Hollywood on Jan. 8 and offered to perform sex for money. He was arrested for investigation of soliciting an act of prostitution and loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, both misdemeanors.
His attorney, Mark Geragos, did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday.
Lee Tamahori
Failed Drug Test
Tom Sizemore
Prosecutors accused actor Tom Sizemore of failing another drug test and of getting thrown out of a drug treatment program for arguing with another person.
Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney told a judge that Sizemore violated his probation by testing positive for drugs on Jan. 23 and being ousted from a treatment program Tuesday.
But Sizemore told Superior Court Judge T.K. Herman he was just talking with the other person at the program, adding the man would testify on his behalf when his hearing resumes Tuesday.
Tom Sizemore
Released From Home Monitoring
Courtney Love
Singer-actress Courtney Love won a release from home detention monitoring on Friday from a Los Angeles judge who praised her progress in recovering from drug addiction.
Love, 41, appeared before Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin for a routine progress hearing on three criminal cases that landed her in a drug treatment facility in November.
Love thanked the judge "for not being as punitive as you could have been" and told him, "I feel like I'm getting my creativity back...and that I've put a very gnarly drug problem behind me."
Courtney Love
Re-Arrested After Release
Anthony Pellicano
Private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano, freed from prison on Friday after serving 2 1/2 years for firearms offenses, was immediately arrested again in a federal wiretap investigation closely watched in Hollywood.
The charges were contained in sealed court documents that will be made public when Pellicano, 61, is arraigned on Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, said Inspector Jimell Griffin, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service.
The former private detective whose clients have included Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Michael Jackson, has been quoted as vowing never to betray his high-profile clients.
The wiretap probe was triggered in 2002 by accusations that Pellicano had tried to intimidate reporter Anita Busch, then working for the Los Angeles Times, to keep her from pursing stories about a suspected Mafia extortion plot against actor Steven Seagal.
Anthony Pellicano
Director Warns of Military Resurgence
John Junkerman
Japan's plans to change its pacifist constitution could rekindle historical animosities in Asia and lead to another war in the region, an Oscar-nominated director warns in a new documentary.
"Japan's Peace Constitution" is a reminder of the mistrust that still runs deep in much of Asia over Tokyo's militaristic past, and the potential backlash against any resurgence of that militarism, American director John Junkerman said at a weekend screening in Tokyo.
"It's Article 9 that has calmed Asia's fears of Japan again becoming an aggressor," Junkerman said, referring to the section of the constitution - drafted by U.S. occupation forces and unchanged since 1947 - which bars the use of military force in settling international disputes.
John Junkerman
In Memory
Louise Scruggs
Louise Scruggs, 78, who bucked the male-dominated country music industry by managing her banjo-playing husband Earl Scruggs, has died, hospital officials said on Friday.
Often described by her husband as "99 percent of my career," she was the first female manager in country music, helping him become a star in bluegrass music with long-time partner Lester Flatt, then cross over into folk, rock-pop and other genres.
She booked his performances, accompanied him to shows, handled the business side of his contracts and promoted his music to television and films. She also raised their three sons.
They were married in 1948 and she doggedly ran her husband's career in an industry she called sexist.
"You have to remember, male businessmen were all sexist," she once told Reuters in an interview. "Earl told me not to worry because they were just afraid of me. So I went on letting them be afraid and when they found they had to deal with me to get to him, they gave up."
Louise Scruggs
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