Bartcop Entertainment - Saturday, 15 February, 2003

Saturday

15 February, 2003

big hammer - bigger hammer

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'TBH Politoons'

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Thanks, again, Tim!

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From 'All Hat No Cattle'

Trivia Question

Trivia from All Hat No Cattle

What do the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Raelian cloned baby have in common?

Answer: The judge in the case is Flea's father - Cloned Baby!

~~   Lisa Casey

Laugh your way through political turmoil www.allhatnocattle.net

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security.- Ben Franklin


Thanks, Lisa!

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Reader Comment

Re: The Doors

AT END OF 'DOORS' STORY:

"Stewart Copeland of the Police, who has been rehearsing with Manzarek, Krieger and singer Ian Astbury, bowed out of Friday's concert due to an elbow injury; his participation in the spring shows is in doubt. Ty Dennis, a member of Krieger's band, has filled in."

Remember, the last time Copeland injured himself was right before the long-awaited Police reunion in 1986. He broke his collar bone in a polo accident, ruining the plans for a new Police album.

God forbid Copeland ever gets tapped to play with the Rolling Stones...

~~   Judson_K


Thanks, Judson! Great point, well taken. [And as much as I loved your punch line, opted for the 'safe mode'.]   ; )

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LBAPN - Long Beach Area Peace Network Home

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Day started out cloudy & overcast, turned sunny & bright.

Picked up a fresh bag o' crickets at Reptiles Unlimited for Jo (the remaining) lizard. Lots of interesting things there.

Did the weekly grocery shopping for the humans, too.



Tonight, Saturday, CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Touched by An Angle', followed by a FRESH 'The District', and then a FRESH 'The Agency'.

NBC has a bad habit of filling 2 of 3 hours on Saturday night with reruns, thus saving money while alienating viewers. Any way, tonight opens with a RERUN 'Law & Order', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', followed by a FRESH 'Meet My Folks'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Jennifer Garner hosting & Beck providing the music. Last weeks show was athe worst I've ever seen, and I've been watching since the debut episode.

ABC opens with the well-worn, but a day-late-&-$-short 'A Charlie Brown Valentine', then the movie 'Notting Hill'.

Faus opens with a FRESH 'Cops', then a RERUN 'Cops', followed by 'America's Most Wanted'.
The ever-peculiar Andy Dick hosts 'Mad TV'.

UPN offers the movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'.

TCM has an odd, but interesting New Yorker-back-to-back double bill - Annie Hall (1977), directed & written & starring Woody Allen, and his woman of the time-frame, Diane Keaton.
It's followed by Marty (1955), written by the amazing Paddy Chayefsky, and stars Ernest Borgnine.  (" What do you wanna do tonight?    I dunno. What do you wanna do?")



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



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Une femme présente un coeur composé de 100 préservatifs, réalisé par un magasin de Pékin désireux de participer à la lutte contre le sida. Les autorités chinoises ont lancé une campagne de prévention face à l'augmentation des cas de sida dans le pays. Photo by Wilson Chu

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BYTE BACK

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Agrees To Accept Honorary Oscar

Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole has agreed to accept an honorary Academy Award after politely balking because he thought the honor meant his career was over, an Oscar official said Friday.

The 70-year-old Irish actor, who has never won an Oscar despite being nominated seven times, apparently reassessed the situation and will now appear at the March 23 ceremony, according to Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

O'Toole initially mistook the offer as a sign that his peers thought he could no longer win a competitive award. He sent a handwritten letter to the academy last month saying he was "enchanted" at the thought of an honorary Oscar but that he was "still in the game, and might yet win (the award) outright."

He asked if it was possible for the academy to "please defer the honor until I am 80?"

O'Toole's manager, Johnnie Planco, declined to confirm the academy's announcement, saying the matter was being kept a surprise.

Peter O'Toole

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Will Go on Without GOP Presence

USC Media Forum

Next week's forum on media ownership rules will go forward at USC despite the last-minute decisions of Republican FCC commissioner Kevin Martin not to attend and fellow GOP rep Kathleen Abernathy to participate only via videoconference, organizers said Thursday.

Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell, also a Republican, had said he wouldn't go from the outset. The FCC's two Democratic commissioners, Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, are keeping the appointment.

The idea was for the FCC commissioners to hear from members of Hollywood's creative community and from media giants at the event, which is being organized by the USC's Center for Communication Law & Policy. The creatives say it's imperative that the regulatory agency retain key ownership rules; media companies maintain they are no longer needed.

Martin and Abernathy said they had no choice but to cancel attending in person after Powell announced he was rescheduling a full commission meeting from this week to Thursday, two days after the USC forum. Powell did so after it became clear he did not have the necessary votes to pass a telecom mandate because of a competing plan put forth by Martin.

Powell has been resistant to holding official public hearings on the media ownership review, saying any member of the public can file written comments. But others have sharply disagreed, saying public debate is crucial.

The only officially sanctioned FCC hearing will be held Feb. 27 in Richmond, Va.

USC Media Forum


The freaking air waves were supposed to belong to ALL American citizens, not just Republicans. This politicizing for profit is killing the flow of information.
Mikey Powell says any 'member of the public' (as opposed to 'citizen'?), can file a comment - yeah, like mine will have the same influence as the soft money stapled to Rupert Murdoch's missive.
Mikey, a product of neopotism, has no desire to hold public hearings. After all, if he wasn't so 'special', he wouldn't have this gig. And since he's 'special', he knows best.
As my dear old Dad says, want to find out why things are the way they are - follow the money.
And his kin would add, 'It rots from the head.'

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The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel

Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

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Australian Police Recover

Beatles Tapes

Police on Friday recovered reel-to-reel tapes apparently recorded by The Beatles and believed stolen from the band's studios in London more than three decades ago.

Detectives raided a home in western Sydney early Friday and seized tape recordings of the "Abbey Road" album and "The Beatles," better known as "The White Album." They also confiscated album artwork, police said in a statement.

A preliminary examination of the tapes suggested they are either original studio recordings or professionally made copies, police said. They did not say how much the tapes are worth.

Detectives believe the recordings were stolen from the Abbey Road studios in 1969. A 27-year-old man was arrested at the home but was later released without charges being filed.

Beatles Tapes


Thanks, Tim H!

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Pro-Peace - Not Anti-American

Madonna

Madonna, the Michigan-born Material Girl, who made headlines with reports that a music video for her latest song, "American Life," carries a strong anti-war message, said it should not be interpreted as critical of her homeland or resident Bush. "I feel lucky to be an American citizen for many reasons, one of which is the right to express myself freely," Madonna said in a statement on her Web site ( www.madonna.com).

"I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq," she said. "I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and illusions of what many people believe is the American dream -- the perfect life."

The 44-year-old entertainer added that she hopes the video will provoke "thought and dialogue" and does not expect everyone to agree with her point of view.

Madonna

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Childhood Home to Open to Public

John Lennon

Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, arrive late for a news conference at Twickenham Studios, Middlesex, England, on June 12, 1965. The Beatles have been created members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen's birthday honors list. Behind the couple at center is the band's manager Brian Epstein

The house where John Lennon spent his childhood and wrote some of his The Beatles' first hits will open to the public next month, Britain's National Trust said Friday.

Mendips, the suburban home Lennon shared with his Aunt Mimi, was bought last year by the Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, who donated it to the heritage organization.

Lennon lived at 251 Menlove Avenue in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton from the age of five — when his parents separated and he went to live with his Aunt Mimi — until he was 23. He taught himself to play guitar in the four-bedroom 1930s house, and reportedly wrote "She Loves You" in the front room.

Ono bought the house for an unspecified sum after the National Trust, which owns Paul McCartney's childhood home, said it was not interested in buying the property.

John Lennon

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Hollywood Star #2215

Earl Scruggs

It seems fitting that "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" banjo player Earl Scruggs got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on a rainy, foggy morning.

Scruggs, the banjo master whose three-fingered approach to playing is credited by many with giving bluegrass music its distinctive sound, was honored Thursday with a ceremony in front of the Hollywood Entertainment Museum.

His is the 2,215th star on the Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk, placing him among recent honorees such as "Everybody Loves Raymond" actress Doris Roberts, director Steven Spielberg and "The Hours" star Nicole Kidman.

With Lester Flatt, Scruggs created two well-known pieces of bluegrass music — the theme song for "The Beverly Hillbillies" TV show and "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," which was recorded in 1949.

Scruggs started playing the banjo at 4, in the traditional picking style, using two fingers on the instrument's five strings. At 10, he locked himself in a room and perfected his three-fingered method after an argument with older brother Horace. "It came to me like a dream," he recalled.

Earl Scruggs

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Monday - Night of the Jackos

Dueling Michael Jacksons

TV's gone wacko for Jacko: ABC and NBC are now planning competing two-hour Michael Jackson specials for Monday night.

ABC has worked out a deal with VH1 to air a rerun of its high-rated Feb. 6 special "Living with Michael Jackson." The music cable network, which has always held U.S. repeat rights to the controversial interview, still plans to air the special this weekend.

ABC will encore "Living with Michael" Monday from 9-11 p.m. as part of a full night of Jackomania. From 8-9 p.m., the network will air a special "PrimeTime" focusing on the latest controversies circling the self-proclaimed King of Pop.

In response to ABC's move, NBC has decided to expand "Michael Jackson Unmasked" into a two-hour edition of "Dateline NBC" that will air from 9-11 Monday. The special "Dateline" had been set to air from 10-11 Monday, but NBC programmers decided Jacko was too hot for a single hour.

Jackomania continues later next week when Fox airs its two-hour rebuttal from Jackson featuring the singer's own videotape of his Granada interview.

Dueling Michael Jacksons

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Lawsuit Over Lost Tapes Dismissed

Allman Brothers Band

A Los Angeles judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit by the Allman Brothers Band, ruling that the rockers waited too long to sue Universal Music Group for the return of a decade's worth of their recordings.

The band, whose hits include "Ramblin' Man," claimed in their 2001 lawsuit that the recordings of live performances, demos and rehearsals made between 1969 and 1979 were for personal use and were not part of their Capricorn Records contract.

The Allman Brothers tapes were among recordings stored in a warehouse whose contents was transferred to Polygram Records during Capricorn's 1979 bankruptcy. Through a series of mergers of record companies, the tapes eventually ended up in the hands of Universal Music, now a unit of Vivendi Universal .

The band members -- Gregg Allman, Jai Johnny "Jaimoe" Johanson, Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks, and the estate of Raymond Berry Oakley III -- contended in the suit that they did not know the tapes were stored in the warehouse until 1998.

Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin granted Universal's motion to dismiss the suit on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired on the band's claims.

Allman Brothers Band

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AOL/Time-Warner Rules It Out

CNN/ABC News Merger

AOL Time Warner Inc. said on Thursday it has ruled out any further consideration of a possible merger between CNN and ABC News.

The decision, announced on the air by CNN's "Moneyline" host Lou Dobbs and followed by a brief corporate statement, came months after word first surfaced of talks between CNN and ABC, a unit of Walt Disney Co.

"After careful review, it was determined that although there are great merits and possibilities to a merger ... for us, the potential problems associated with the completion of such a transaction and the integration of these two distinct and great cultures was more than we wanted to pursue at this time," AOL Time Warner said in the statement.

CNN/ABC News Merger

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Highest TV Ratings Ever

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

The Westminster Kennel Club dog show drew its highest TV audience yet, attracting an average of 4.6 million viewers per night on the USA Network.

A Kerry blue terrier named Mick won best in show Tuesday night, capping the two-day competition at America's most prestigious canine event.

The network's two-night average household rating of 3.7 was up 9 percent from last year's 3.4.

The USA Network has televised the Westminster show for 20 years.

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

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Receives Hasty Pudding Award

Martin Scorsese

Director Martin Scorsese acknowledges the proper grammar of Robert DeNiro's famous line in the movie 'Taxi Driver', which he directed, during a skit as he is honored by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals as their Man of the Year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003. Photo by Charles Krupa

Director Martin Scorsese was given a grammar lesson — and made to wear a curly blonde wig and red-sequined bra — on Friday when he was crowned Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year.

Scorsese received the honor at the opening night of "It's a Wonderful Afterlife," a production of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, an undergraduate dramatic troupe.

Scorsese stood on the stage with a blackboard with the words "You talking to me?" written on it, in reference to Robert DeNiro's famous line from the Scorsese-directed movie "Taxi Driver."

A Harvard student dressed as a staid schoolmarm made Scorsese repeat the grammatically correct phrase "To whom are you speaking?"

Martin Scorsese

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Snarky Gossip

Annie Leibovitz

No one is immune to the charms - and risks - of a babysitter. Think of Robin Williams, Joe Piscopo and Michael Kennedy. Now add Annie Leibovitz to the list. The famed photographer - who has long been linked to writer Susan Sontag - had a baby girl two years ago. They have never discussed the child's paternity. But now the couple has broken up, sources say, and fingers are pointing at the nanny who has been caring for the little girl. "Annie has run off with the babysitter," one source said. The man who answered the phone at Leibovitz's studio said only that she is on vacation. The Andrew Wylie literary agency, which reps Sontag, had no comment.

Annie Leibovitz

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Twins By Surrogate

Joan Blunden

Former "Good Morning America" host Joan Lunden said she and her husband, Jeff Konigsberg, are becoming parents to twins born to a surrogate mother. The children, a boy and a girl, are due in mid-June.

Lunden, 52, has three daughters ranging in age from 15 to 22 from her first marriage.

She'd tried to get pregnant with Konigsberg through in vitro fertilization but was unsuccessful. Then they turned to the Center for Surrogate Parenting in Los Angeles.

But some things will remain private, such as whether the sperm and egg used to grow the embryo implanted in the surrogate are biologically Konigsberg's and Lunden's.

Joan Blunden

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Turns Tables on Fashion Editors

Bette Midler

Bette Midler turned the tables on the press at the Cynthia Rowley fashion show: Instead of posing for the cameras, Midler sat quietly sketching the fashion editors.

Dressed in a turtleneck and sunglasses, Midler said she was just making use of the sketch pad and pencil that Rowley left on each seat. Thursday night's fashion show, previewing fall 2003, took place in an art gallery, and Rowley said her shimmery skirts and dresses with bow-tied waists were inspired by the women who work in the hip, downtown art world.

"I'm just doodling," said Midler, whose pad was filling up with both portraits of the crowd and still-life pictures of the stage. She even offered a reporter tips on creating cartoon characters, beginning with a very round head, and exaggerated and expressive eyes.

The 57-year-old singer-actress said she became a fan of Rowley's flirty styles while her daughter, Sophie von Hasselberg, interned with the designer last summer.

Bette Midler

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Moves Artworks to Avoid Floods

France

Worried it might be caught unprepared for the type of flooding that swamped eastern Europe last year, France has launched its biggest operation since World War II to protect its vast art heritage.

Culture Minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon on Thursday presented a $5.36 million plan to transfer more than 100,000 works of art now in storage to facilities outside Paris.

Exhibits and collections now on display will have plans for emergency evacuation to upper floors of museums.

With memories of major floods that damaged museums in Prague and Dresden in 2002 — and fears of a catastrophic flood like the one that inundated Paris in 1910 — France is preparing for the worst.

Aillagon said the undertaking was the largest since 1940, when precious artworks were slipped out of Paris and taken to the south of France to protect them from the Nazi occupiers.

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Unusual Film Deal

Mike Myers

Mike Myers has inked an unusual production deal with DreamWorks in which the actor will insert himself, other actors and new plots into existing films to create new properties.

The studio is calling the process "film sampling," similar to the music business practice in which an artist takes part of an existing song and works it into his own tune, sometimes with new lyrics and music.

The idea isn't new; Woody Allen created new dialogue for a Japanese film and released it as What's Up, Tiger Lily? in 1966. More recently, commercials have altered old movie footage starring John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart and Fred Astaire to promote beer, soda and vacuum cleaners.

Myers' pact, which isn't a traditional first-look production deal but specific to the films made from sampling, will have DreamWorks acquiring the rights to films so the actor can use advancements in technology to digitally alter them.

Mike Myers

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Formerly 'The Vidiot'

pissed

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Banned In Malaysia

'Daredevil'

Malaysian movie censors have banned "Daredevil," a Hollywood film based on a cartoon character who is a lawyer by day and a vigilante crime fighter at night, a newspaper reported Friday.

The ban, however, could have little effect as pirated VCD and DVD versions of the film are already available on the streets of Kuala Lumpur. The movie opens in the United States this weekend.

The Twentieth Century Fox production, starring heart-throb Ben Affleck, has violent content and other "unhealthy elements," the Star daily quoted officials as saying.

Almost all Hollywood movies are available on pirated VCDs and DVDs in Malaysia, selling for up to 10 ringgit ($2.60) a piece.

'Daredevil'

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Wearing his trademark pajamas and bathrobe, actor-comedian Rodney Dangerfield and his wife Joan brave light rain and helicopter prop wash as the aircraft hoists a redwood hot tub, a surprise Valentine's Day present, to their 21st-floor penthouse in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003.
Photo by Reed Saxon

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Disney Pulling Kids Programs

UPN

The Walt Disney Co. has decided not to renew its deal to provide shows such as "Digimon," "Legend of Tarzan" and "Recess" on UPN affiliates Monday through Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings, Disney announced Thursday.

The decision reflects the poor ratings programs for younger children draw on broadcast networks and the migration of viewers to cable channels such as Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, Disney said.

In 2001, both NBC and CBS stopped programming Saturday morning kids shows. NBC struck a deal to lease that time to cable channel Discovery Kids while CBS gave its Saturday morning block over to sister network Nickelodeon.

Disney has provided kids shows for UPN for the past three years and has seen ratings slip while it has added several new cable channels, including Toon Disney and ABC Family. When its contract expires Aug. 31, Disney will move its UPN shows to one of its other networks, Disney said.

UPN

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Honored at Reagan Library

Bob Hope

Entertainer Bob Hope is getting an early 100th birthday present: He's being honored at the shrine dedicated to longtime friend Ronald Reagan.

An exhibit featuring rare photographs, video and film clips, and letters from the families of military personnel Hope visited on overseas USO tours opens Monday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

The museum's celebration of Hope's 100 years continues through June 7. Hope, who turns 100 on May 29, has been secluded at his suburban Los Angeles home in recent years.

Bob Hope

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Or Is It Richard

'Dick Avery'

When the magazine known as The Week asked Nora Ephron to moderate a discussion after a screening of "Funny Face," they didn't tell her that Richard Avedon would be in the audience. He's the high-fashion photographer who was the inspiration for "Dick Avery," the character played by Fred Astaire in the 1957 movie co-starring Audrey Hepburn. But when Ephron arrived at the Tribeca Grand Hotel - before publicist Jonathan Marder could push the legendary lensman behind a curtain - she burst down the stairs and screamed, "Dick Avedon is here!" Afterward, Avedon exchanged jocular reminiscences with the film's director, Stanley Donen.

'Dick Avery'

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1,230-Year-Old Tradition

'Festival For Naked Men'

Two men were rendered comatose when dozens of revelers stampeded over them during a 1,230-year-old festival Thursday, police said.

A staggering 9,000 men took part in the event, called "hadaka matsuri (festival for naked men) at Konomiya Shrine in Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture, while 125,000 others looked on.

The festival requires the naked participants to touch one "deity man" in a gesture to drive out evil spirit.

Thursday's event reached its climax as hundreds of men rushed to the designated deity man at about 5 p.m., said Inazawa Polices Station officers.

Masahiko Kobayashi, 31, and another unnamed man fell down as dozens of others stampeded over them. Since being taken to hospital, the two unconscious men have been struggling for life, the officers said.

A total of 38 people of all the participants and onlookers, including two women, fell sick or were injured and required medical attention. Two of them remain hospitalized.

'Festival For Naked Men'

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After Jackson Interview

Web Site Traffic

Web traffic to ABCNews.com (http://abcnews.go.com) rose 37 percent following the network's televised airing of the Martin Bashir documentary with pop icon Michael Jackson, Nielsen//NetRatings said on Thursday.

The ABC News Web site attracted 282,000 Internet surfers logging on from home on February 7, the day after the controversial interview aired, NetRatings said. Bashir is a British journalist.

The site attracted just 206,000 surfers the previous day.

According to Nielsen Media Research, the documentary which aired on a special 20/20 episode, was the top watched show that evening with more than 27.1 million viewers.

Immediately airing after the documentary, ABC's news show, Primetime, featured additional footage and interviews with Martin Bashir. The show drew 22.7 million viewers.

Web Site Traffic

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Rolled Off Flight Deck

Oops

An EA-6B Prowler tumbled into the Pacific Ocean during flight training on the USS Stennis off the coast of Southern California, the Navy reported. Three crewmembers aboard the plane were rescued.

The Prowler, assigned to Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 129 based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island lost brake control while landing on the carrier at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.

The crewmembers ejected as the plane rolled off the flight deck. No serious injuries were reported.

The USS Stennis, based at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, is conducting regularly scheduled training exercises following routine maintenance.

Prowlers support air combat operations by jamming enemy radar, electronic data links and communications. The planes, which cost an estimated $52 million each, played a key role in suppressing enemy anti-aircraft defenses during Operation Desert Storm.

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In Memory

Joe Connelly

Television writer-producer Joe Connelly, who co-created the wholesome family comedy "Leave It to Beaver," has died. He was 86.

Connelly died Thursday at a nursing facility in Newport Beach of complications from a stroke he suffered late last month.

Born in New York, Connelly worked for the merchant marines before being hired by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, where he met his soon-to-be partner Bob Mosher.

Both men left the agency in 1942 for the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy radio show. In the mid-1940s, after writing for the Frank Morgan and Phil Harris radio shows, they began a 12-year run writing for "Amos 'n' Andy," including the early 1950s TV version of the popular radio show.

The pair developed a short-lived anthology series for actor Ray Milland that helped them hone their writing skills for subjects they knew best. The result was "The Private War of Major Benson," a 1955 movie comedy starring Charlton Heston that earned Connelly and Mosher an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story.

But their most notable work was creating "Leave It to Beaver," which starred Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers, who played the title role. The Cleavers became a household name, even though the series ended in 1963 after six seasons. The show continues in syndication around the world.

"It was the first show done from a kid's point of view, and in that respect it was unique in giving them a voice," said Brian Levant, who co-wrote the 1983 TV movie "Still the Beaver," which starred members of the original cast and who was the executive producer of the spinoff cable series, "The New Leave It to Beaver."

Connelly's 14-year-old son, Jay, served as the model for Beaver's older brother, Wally; and Connelly's 8-year-old son, Ricky, was the inspiration for Beaver - the nickname of one of Connelly's merchant marine shipmates.

Among other TV credits for Connelly and Mosher include "The Munsters," "Tammy," "Ichabod and Me," "Calvin and the Colonel," "Blondie," "Bringing Up Buddy," "Pistols 'n' Petticoats" and "90 Bristol Court."

Connelly continued to work in the entertainment industry, producing Elvis Presley's final movie, "Change of Habit." In the early 1970s, he suffered a near-fatal aneurysm that halted his career.

A twice-married widower, Connelly is survived by his children, Karen Donovan, Maria Connelly-Gordon, Franny Rooney, Patrick Connelly and Mandy Dalzell - in addition to Jay and Rick; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Joe Connelly

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A Roman chariot and remains of horses dating back to the 1st century A.D. are seen in the Evros Region, northeastern Greece, in this undated hand out picture. The finding was presented along with other antiquities in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, during an archaelogical meeting on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003.

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'The Osbournes'

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The Complete List of Grammy Nominations

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Who served?

The Chickenhawk Database

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