Bartcop Entertainment - Saturday, 23 March, 2002

Saturday

23 March, 2002

big hammer - bigger hammer

(Updated Daily)

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How About Some Oscar (& Razzie) Fever?

Saturday & Sunday

The Razzies are tonight. The Oscars are tomorrow.

Here's the deal:

For the Razzies, the categories are: (1) 'Who will win the most awards', (2) 'which picture will 'win' the most awards, and the (3) 'winning' (''best worst'') picture. (Rumor has it that Tom Green [who is more than a contender] is going to be present(!).

BartCopE! will have our own genuine Razzies reporter to provide an honest commentary (and maybe some pictures, too)!

For the Oscars, the categories are: (1) Supporting Actor & Actress, (2) Best Actor & Actress, (3) Director, (4) Picture - AND - (5) 'Who will give the most embarrassing speech'?

Have had a few questions as to what constitutes 'the most embarrassing' Oscar acceptance speech. Going to use the 'Sally Field - Gwenyth Paltrow Scale'. It'll be that one speech that makes you wince, go 'huh?', or resides in the realm of creeped out.

Scroll down for listings of both Razzies and Oscar nominees.

Make your selections & then e-mail it to BartCopEMarty@aol.com. This is the only address that will work for this contest. This is NOT Chicago, so vote early, but don't vote often.

Now, for the prizes!.
(Hot damn!)

The Winner of the Oscar prize, will, thanks to BartCop, receive a pound of

South's Finest Chocolate



For the Razzies contest, I'm kicking in a favorite film-related snowdome from my collection. A genuine, in the box 'Fargo' (the movie) snowdome (never available in any store). It features an over-turned car, a body, a female officer, some lovely details & lots of snow.

The Razzies contest closes at 5pm (pst) Saturday, March 23, 2002.

The Oscar contest closes at 5pm (pst) Sunday, March 24, 2002.


Big thanks to BartCop for the idea and the chocolate & Buzzcook for the Tie Breaking Category.

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'The Hastings Bad Cinema Society'

'And The Award Goes To '

From BartCopE! correspondent, Joe Bacon



The Hastings Bad Cinema Society announced their "winners" this afternoon:
(This isn't Florida, folks. Cruella De Harris couldn't tamper with the chads here...)

WORST FILM
Freddy Got Fingered

WORST SENSE OF DIRECTION
Tom Green (Freddy Got Fingered)

WORST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE
Tom Green (Freddy Got Fingered)

WORST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE
Mariah Carey (Glitter)

WORST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
The Rock (The Mummy Returns)

WORST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Tori Spelling (Scary Movie 2)

WORST SCREENPLAY FOR A FILM GROSSING MORE THAN $100 MILLION WORLDWIDE*
*using Hollywood math
Pearl Harbor

MOST PAINFULLY UNFUNNY COMEDY
Freddy Got Fingered

WORST SEQUEL
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

WORST SONG IN A FILM OR ITS END CREDITS
"Loverboy" (Mariah Carey) from "Glitter"

MOST INTRUSIVE MUSICAL SCORE
The Fast and the Furious

WORST ON-SCREEN COUPLE
Tom Green and any person, animal or foreign object (Freddy Got Fingered)

MOST ANNOYING ON-SCREEN GROUP
Josie and the Pussycats (Josie and the Pussycats)

WORST ON-SCREEN HAIRSTYLE
David Spade (Joe Dirt)

MOST ANNOYING FAKE ACCENT - MALE
Nicolas Cage (Captain Corelli's Mandolin)

MOST ANNOYING FAKE ACCENT - FEMALE
Jennifer Lopez (Angel Eyes)

MOST UNWELCOME DIRECT-TO-VIDEO SEQUEL
Children of the Corn 7: Revelation

FOUNDERS AWARD ("What Were They Thinking?") - 2001
Sony Pictures and its fictitious movie critic David Manning

Thanks to The Hastings Bad Cinema Society & Joe Bacon

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Fun Site

Asticles

 
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Behold! The 10 Test-Asticles* and Tell 3 Friends

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Astrology Picks The Academy Award Winners

From Geneva

(The Official BartCop Astrologer)

I've been playing around with the Academy Award nominees trying to find potential winners.  Unfortunately I only have complete timed charts for 3, which are, Halle Berry, Ron Howard and Denzel Washington. Having a chart with an accurate time of birth is essential for predictions. I have also been using a technique developed by French researcher and statistician, Michel Gauquelin, which says that planets in or near the angles of a chart have added strength.  Gauquelin found that actors have the planet Jupiter in those sectors more often than you would expect for chance or random samples.
 
Halle Berry has Jupiter at an angle, in the Gauquelin sector.  Her lunar return, set for Los Angeles prior to Sunday, shows Jupiter conjunct the Mid-heaven, all in Gauquelin major power zones.  Not having timed charts for the others I'm making an educated guess on the likelihood of her winning.
 
 
Denzel Washington has natal Jupiter in the 10th, also in the Gauquelin Major sector.  Lunar Return Jupiter is just above the descendant, another Gauquelin Major sector.  I'm not ready to declare him the winner. I wish I had a birth time for Russell Crowe, I figure it's between him and Denzel. 
 
And as for Ron Howard.  I think it looks really good for him to get the Best Director award.  He's in a Jupiter dasa and Venus Bhutki period, methods used in Hindu astrology.  His natal Jupiter is in the 2nd,  not a Gauquelin Major Sector.  His Lunar Return Jupiter is in a Gauquelin Major sector coming from the 9th house. 
 
Unfortunately lacking birth times for any of the other contenders, I'm unable to check the position of Jupiter relative to the Gauquelin sectors or run their Lunar Returns.   I came up with the idea of running a chart for the start time of the Academy Awards and then comparing the Jupiters of the candidates to the Gauquelin sectors of the Academy Awards chart.  I have no idea if that's a valid method.  But based on that my choices are:
 
Best Actor:
 
Denzel Washington or Russell Crowe.  Too close to call.  I really need a birthtime for RC
 
Best Supporting Actor:
 
Ian McKellan
 
Best Actress:
 
Halle Berry
 
Best Supporting Actress:
 
Helen Mirren
 
Best Director:
 
Ron Howard
 
I can't pick best picture, no chart to examine.  But I'm going with my instincts and saying it will be "A Beautiful Mind". 
Geneva 

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From 'TBH Politoons'

Great Site!

Click Here!


Thanks, again, Tim!

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

The NCAA was on one TV or another all night long, again. Have decided that if they are serious about increasing female viewership, they need to return to those too-short, too-tight short shorts of the late 70's & 80's!


Tonight, Saturday, CBS is in on the road to the Final Four. Local programming is a sure bet for at least an hours worth of primetime. Later, there is a rerun 'The Agency', and a fresh 'The District'.

NBC has 2 hours of fresh episodes of 'UC: Undercover', and then a rerun 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'. SNL is a rerun with Billy Bob Thornton.

ABC dumps the James Bond movie o'the week, and has 3 hours of ice skating.

The WB has the movie 'Sleeping With The Enemy'.

Faux has a fresh 'Cops', followed by a rerun 'Cops', and then a fresh 'America's Most Wanted'.

UPN has a movie, 'Flight Of The Intruder'.

KCET, PBS for Los Angeles has 'Singing In The Rain'.

AMC has 'On The Waterfront' (''I coulda been a contendah'') and 'The African Queen'.

TCM celebrates Oscar-winning movies with a 'sea' theme...'Mutiny On The Bounty', 'The Sea Wolf', another version of 'Mutiny On The Bounty', and 'The Sea Hawk'...

Tonight is also the Razzie Awards. I'm really stoked that we will have our own reporter there -- he's not just a card-carrying member, but a voting member, too! Tonight, Joe provided details & winners of the 'Hastings Bad Movie Society Awards' (scroll up).



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



(See below for addresses)

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In The Neighborhood Of $20,000 Each

Oscar Goody Basket

Presenters at the Academy Awards will get a pricey thank you for ripping open the envelope and announcing winners on Sunday.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has assembled gift baskets packed with at least $6,400 worth of luxury items each.

The Academy keeps details of the baskets secret, but some companies contributing to the packages say the final worth could be as much as $20,000.

After the ceremony, they can sniff $400 bottles of JOY Perfume while relaxing in $160 Loveletters Loungewear spa clothes and sipping $100 samples of Mingcha Chinese tea.

Later, they can polish their smiles by cashing in $600 certificates for BriteSmile teeth-whitening sessions and shield their eyes from glare with $250 TAG Heuer sunglasses.

The gift baskets reportedly include chocolate-wrap skin treatments, designer handbags, certificates for $1,700 shape-conforming mattresses, $1,600 Ebel Watches and $300 vouchers for Birkenstock shoes.

Oscar Goody Basket

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Big Dog Watch Continues

Bill Clinton



Former President Bill Clinton will be blowing his saxophone at the Apollo Theatre next month, and Michael Jackson and Tony Bennett are expected to join him in a star-studded event to raise money for a voter registration drive, the Democratic National Committee said Friday.

The April 24 fund-raiser at the legendary Harlem theater, just down the street from Clinton's New York office, will be co-hosted by actors Cicely Tyson and Chris Tucker, said DNC spokeswoman Maria Cardona.

Gospel singer BeBe Winans is expected to perform "Together We Stand" in memory of those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The performance will raise funds for "Every Vote Counts," the Democratic party's national voter registration drive, and kick off a series of similar fund-raisers around the country, Cardona said. The Apollo event alone is expected to raise $2.5 million.

Bill Clinton

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Gandolf The Guerilla

Ian McKellen

Before Oscar-nominee Ian McKellen checks into his L.A. hotel this weekend, management would be well advised to remove the copy of the Gideon Bible from his suite. It turns out the British actor is a gay rights guerrilla who gleefully defaces the good book. He tells Webster Hall art curator Baird Jones that when he checks into a hotel, he looks for the Gideon, turns to Leviticus 18.22 and rips out that page. "I don't know if anyone's even noticed [his action], but that section railing against homosexuality offends me," he says. "I must have censored hundreds of Gideons by now."

Ian McKellen

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Susan Lucci Of The Oscars

Randy Newman

Will 2002 be the year for Randy Newman?

The composer received his 15th and 16th Academy Award nominations this year, but has never gone home with the coveted honor. Newman's nominations are for best score from "Monsters, Inc.," as well as best original song, for "If I Didn't Have You" from the same movie.

His competition are Paul McCartney's "Vanilla Sky" from the movie of the same name, Diane Warren's "There You'll Be" from "Pearl Harbor." Enya's "May It Be" from "Lord of the Rings," and Sting's "Until" from "Kate and Leopold."

The record for most nominations without a win is 15, held both by composer Alex North and art director Roland Anderson.

Randy Newman

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Liberal Radio !

Erin Hart



Liberal radio - what a concept!

Join Erin Hart at regulation time (9 pm to 1 am [pst] Sat & Sun ) on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's a browser thing).

And there's a chatroom, too!

(Wonder who one of Erin's guests will be Sunday...LOL)

For more details, visit Erin's fan page (courtesy of 14Dem), http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a note to erinistas@aol.com

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That's Why His Name Is So Appropriate?

Dick Nixon

If you thought President Richard Nixon's opinions of Jews were bad, consider his take on homosexuals.

The Watergate President decided that Northern California had become so "faggy" that he told aides, "I won't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco."

And after watching an episode of "All in the Family," Nixon concluded that Meathead was bisexual, and another character "queer" because he was wearing an ascot.

Nixon's ramblings, on recently released tapes, were discovered by Doug McVay, a researcher for the group Common Sense for Drug Policy, who sent them to The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten for his "Below the Beltway" column.

"I don't want to see this country go that way," Nixon blathers on. "You know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates. The last six Roman emperors were fags. Now that's what happened to Britain."

Dick Nixon

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5th Most Eligible Woman In Britain

Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Clinton, 22, is in the second term of a two-year graduate degree course in international relations at Oxford, where her father was a Rhodes Scholar from 1968 to 1970.

The first few months were not easy. In November, newspapers in Oxford reported that Clinton was among a group of American students who heckled a meeting protesting the war in Afghanistan.

In an article for the magazine Talk, Clinton wrote that it was "hard to be abroad" in the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

But, as the year ended, Clinton and Britain began to warm to one another.

In December, Tatler magazine rated her Britain's fifth most eligible woman, two places behind "Titanic" star Kate Winslet and one behind Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne.

In February, Chelsea Clinton attended the London premiere of "The Shipping News," signing autographs and chatting to fans alongside stars Kevin Spacey — an old friend — and Judi Dench.

Afterward, The Evening Standard reported, Clinton asked a New York journalist to pass a message to her mother, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Tell her I'm healthy, I'm happy and I love England," Chelsea said.

Chelsea Clinton - 5th Most Eligible Woman In Britain

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Parrotheads Unite In Maui?

Jimmy Buffett

Singer Jimmy Buffett drew a big crowd for a hastily arranged one-man concert in Waikiki.

"This is what happens when you get bored on Maui," he told about 500 fans at the beachfront Duke's Canoe Club and more than 1,000 others watching from the beach on Thursday. Thousands more watched on a live Webcast.

Buffett has been vacationing and writing a book on Maui.

The barefoot and lei-draped Buffett opened the late-afternoon show with a "Tiny Bubbles" duet with entertainer Don Ho. Among those in attendance were actor Bruce Willis and country singer Glen Campbell.

Parrotheads In Paradise

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Prosecutor Caught In Lie

Andrea Yates & 'Law & Order'

Andrea Yates owes her life to a writer from "Law & Order."

Suzanne O'Malley, an investigative journalist who writes for the hit series and consulted on the Yates trial for "Dateline: NBC," was sitting in the courtroom when world-famous forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz testified that Yates was perfectly sane when she drowned her kids - a key moment in the state's case.

O'Malley, who worked with Dietz when the shrink was a consultant to "Law & Order," paid particular attention to his testimony. Dietz testified that the Sam Waterston-starrer was Yates' favorite program and that she planned her children's murders after watching an episode in which a mother drowns her kids, claims post-partum depression, and is acquitted. Dietz said Yates used the show as a "blueprint" to escape her rotten life and marriage.

But O'Malley was stunned, because she knew that while "Law & Order" was indeed Yates' favorite, "no such episode had ever been written, much less aired," she says.

As an authority on the subject, O'Malley passed the information along to Yates' lawyer George Parnham. The night before Yates' sentencing, Parnham had Dietz admit to false testimony.

"Jurors were shocked," O'Malley says. "The prosecutor had egg on his face. And the misinformation became the grounds for a mistrial, so the prosecutor was forced to give up asking for the death penalty. [Parnham] told me, 'You saved her life.' "

Yates, 37, was sentenced to life in prison and will not be eligible for parole until 2041. If the state decides Yates needs special treatment in jail, it could end up costing taxpayers $30,000 to $50,000 a year.

"It was the dream of why I had ever wanted to be an investigative reporter," O'Malley says. "And spiritually speaking, it had to be me - with my particular set of cicumstances - sitting in that courtroom for the chain reaction to occur. It was awesome."

Andrea Yates & 'Law & Order'

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Dems Get 2 Checks

$12 Million

A billionaire media mogul has given the Democratic National Committee $7 million, believed to be the single largest donation ever to a political party.

The DNC also recently received a $5 million check from Hollywood producer Steve Bing that would otherwise have held the record.

"I hope that my contribution will inspire Democrats that are much richer than me to step up to the plate higher than me," said "Power Rangers" creator Haim Saban, the $7 million donor. "I will be very happy to be fifth in line."

Anticipating the ban, DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe has been traveling the nation for several months raising money for a new party headquarters to rival that of the Republican National Committee.

McAuliffe's sales pitch struck a chord with Saban, billionaire chairman of the Saban Capital Group and creator of the hit children's television show. Saban, a prolific giver to Democratic campaigns, sent his check in early February.

"The Democrats are in the Stone Age, the Republicans are in the 21st century" in technology, Saban said Friday. "We are for the most part a two-party nation and I thought it would be a disaster if one party were to play in an uneven playing field."

The previous party donation record was believed to be a $1.7 million check the Republican National Committee received from Amway Corp. in 1996 to build a TV studio.

$12 Million

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Auction Nets $10 Million

Joseph Nicephore Niepce



An auction of historic photographs -- including the world's oldest -- netted a total of nearly $10.5 million, the Paris branch of Sotheby's said on Friday.

Highlight of the two-day auction was the sale on Thursday for $398,000 of a photograph taken in 1825 and now considered to be the world's first.

Parisian bookseller Andre Jammes unearthed Joseph Nicephore Niepce's photograph of a faded pen and ink drawing of a boy and a horse along with a set of letters to his son, detailing the techniques the pioneering photographer had used.

Experts already knew Niepce had invented photography, but had thought images dating from 1826-7 were the earliest.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

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Chris Cornell-Rage Against the Machine

Ozzfest

The new Chris Cornell-Rage Against the Machine alliance will make their debut this summer on Ozzfest.

The band — which still doesn't have a name — will tour the hard rock music festival with System of a Down, P.O.D., Drowning Pool, and Ozzy Osbourne himself. Rob Zombie will headline the second stage in a stripped down "jeans and t-shirt" set.

Ozzfest kicks off July 6 in suburban Washington.

Chris Cornell-Rage Against the Machine

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Confession To Barbara Walters

Halle Berry

Halle Berry & Peter Boyle At The Open Of 'Monster's Ball'

Halle Berry said she once defined herself by her relationships with men, and it drove her to suicidal depression.

The Oscar-nominated actress confesses in an upcoming Barbara Walters special that her 1996 divorce made her contemplate suicide years ago.

Berry said she ultimately decided to spare her own life because she didn't want to upset her mother.

Halle Berry

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Letters Auctioned

Princess Diana

Intimate handwritten letters from Princess Diana to a friend were sold at auction on Friday for $31,400 to a British collector.

The nine letters and 15 cards were written to Maud Pendrey, a housekeeper at Diana's teenage home of Althorp.

Princess Diana

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As The Billionaire Turns

The Kerkorians

Kirk Kerkorian can't be the father of a 4-year-old girl because he is sterile, the billionaire's lawyers argued as his ex-wife sought $320,000 a month in child support.

"This is a child support case in name only," attorney Dennis M. Wasser said Thursday, accusing Lisa Bonder Kerkorian of "using child support as a vehicle to enrich herself."

During the daylong hearing, Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon ruled that the woman's lawyers may examine Kerkorian's tax returns, but he delayed ruling on her request that Kerkorian pay more than $500,000 in her legal expenses.

In January, Lisa Kerkorian filed for $320,000 a month in child support for her daughter, Kira. Among the expenses she cited were $144,000 for travel, $14,000 for parties and play dates, and $4,300 for food.

Kerkorian has said DNA tests show he's not Kira's father but he has pledged to support her. He has asked the court to award support that doesn't exceed the $50,000 a month he already pays.

Lisa Kerkorian, a 37-year-old former tennis pro, recently admitted that she lied about the paternity. Court papers say she faked a DNA paternity test by using saliva obtained by a ruse from Kerkorian's adult daughter.

The Kerkorians

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What Happened To 'State's Rights'?

Oregon



Stacey Richter holds a sign outside a federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., Friday, March 22, 2002, where a hearing opened to decide the fate of Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law. The hearing opened Friday with arguments from the state's attorney, who said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft lacks the authority to overturn a state law twice approved by voters.
Photo by Don Ryan

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Alliance for Better Campaigns

Walter Cronkite

News veteran Walter Cronkite will be the pitch man for a new campaign assailing broadcasters for not offering enough affordable or free airtime to federal candidates, even though the airwaves are owned by the American public.

"We need your help. We need to make sure that in the greatest democracy in the world, our political campaigns are driven by ideas, not by money," Cronkite says during a nine-minute public service announcement taking broadcasters to task for jacking up the costs of campaigns though ad rates.

The coalition sponsoring the Cronkite piece will officially kick off its grass-roots drive Monday, less than one week after Congress passed landmark campaign finance reform legislation that spared broadcasters from having to offer deep discounts to federal candidates.

Under federal law, broadcasters are required to give discounts to political candidates. Rates, however, can vary depending upon the time slot and whether a candidate is willing to have a spot preempted.

Walter Cronkite

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First 'Entertainer' In Space?

Lance Bass

Teen heart-throb Lance Bass of the U.S. boy-band N'SYNC arrived in Moscow on Friday hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming the first entertainer in space.

After an overnight flight, Bass was whisked straight from the airport to a medical institute outside Moscow for the first of a battery of tests set to last the weekend.

When he finally arrived at his hotel and hauled his suitcase out of a blue van, the jet-lag wasn't enough to dampen the 22-year-old's excitement. What was he here for?

"I'm doing some testing," he said with a grin, then adding bashfully, as if he wasn't quite sure it was OK to let the news out, "for the Russian space agency."

For the rest of the story, Lance Bass


Thanks, Alex!

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Radio & Television Correspondents' Association Dinner

Some Quotes

"The nice thing about an all-news channel is they can't put Dave Letterman on us," said Alan Colmes, of the "Hannity & Colmes" ideological water balloon fight nightly on Fox News Channel. He was interviewed before the dinner at the FNC reception, which was draped in an abundance of white sheets.

Bo Derek made her first appearance there, with Ecuadoran Ambassador Ivonne A-Baki. Derek was dressed in a white wool pantsuit over an avocado blouse that ruffled intriguingly southward. A-Baki was dressed in something glamorous, ambassadorial and black. The men were all dressed similarly as penguins.

Derek, who is now a member of the board of the Kennedy Center, as well as a good Republican, said she was invited to the dinner by Fox News Channel. She said she appreciates that FNC occasionally gives her a podium for her favorite cause, disabled American veterans.

Entertaining the event was comedian Al Franken, who said he felt right at home among the media.

"I saw Connie Chung and Greta Van Susteren having a drink together before dinner, and I couldn't tell them apart."

When the laughter died down, he apologized. "I'm sorry," he said. "I stole that joke from Doris Kearns Goodwin."

Pointing to the controversy over Koppel and "Nightline," Franken said, "I was skeptical when Disney bought ABC News, based on Disney's view of history."

He reminded the audience that Disney had once proposed to build a history theme park near Manassas where visitors would be allowed to undergo the experience of slavery. "But, you know, there's just no historical evidence that the Underground Railroad ever did the loop-the-loop," Franken said.

For all the details, Radio & Television Correspondents' Association Dinner

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Pulled Out Of The ''Here & Now'' Tour

Adam Ant

Pop star Adam Ant, who is currently on bail facing an assault charge, has pulled out of an 80s music revival tour in which he was due to be the headline act.

Ant, who had a string of number one hits including "Prince Charming" and "Stand and Deliver," withdrew from the "Here and Now" Tour because of unspecified medical reasons, Tony Denton Promotions said in a statement.

The 47-year-old, whose real name is Stuart Goddard, was arrested in January and charged with pulling out a gun in the posh London suburb of Primrose Hill. He has been remanded on bail until May 1.

The "Here and Now" tour, which kicks off on April 18, will now be headlined by Hadley, Norman & Keeble, former members of Spandau Ballet, along with Belinda Carlisle, Toyah, Howard Jones, ABC and China Crisis.

Adam Ant

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Add A Cup Of Hypocrisy...

Charles Colson

Since serving time for his part in the Watergate scandal, onetime Nixon aide Charles Colson has founded a national prison ministry and emerged as a leading figure among evangelical Christians. His 38 books have sold more than 5 million copies, and he is a daily radio commentator and a columnist for Christianity Today, generally regarded as America's most influential evangelical magazine.

There, Colson's column occupies an entire page topped by his byline and photograph. And the prose suggests that while the author may have found God behind bars, he lost none of the confrontational style that made him one of the hard men in a self-consciously tough administration. In the magazine's most recent issue, for example, Colson attacks the "Post-Truth Society," and one of the column's two sub-headlines notes that "even the man on the street sees little wrong with lying."

Colson names names, clubbing everyone from football coaches to hysterical teenagers. Historian Stephen Ambrose comes in for particular censure and is described as "dealing in deceit" because he "plagiarized portions of other historians' works and--notwithstanding his public apology--seemed hardly disturbed by the resulting controversy."

The problem with all this is that--notwithstanding his byline and picture--Colson did not write the column, according to current and former employees. The actual author, they say, was Anne Morse, one of two full-time writers Colson employs, along with various "contract" writers and an editor.

Nor is this the first time questions have arisen about Colson's actual contribution to the books and commentaries ascribed to him. In the mid-1990s, Christianity Today received a letter that criticized Colson's reliance on ghostwriters.

Charles Colson

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'The Gold Knight Returns'

The Oscar Poster



The Oscar statuette has been transformed into a superhero on an official poster advertising Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony.

The sword-clutching golden trophy is depicted as a shadowy, muscular figure peering down from a building ledge at the lighted grid of nighttime Los Angeles. Spotlights spear the sky.

The text reads: "The Gold Knight Returns ..." in a reference to the show taking place in the Hollywood area where it began in 1929. In recent decades, it has been held in or near downtown Los Angeles.

Alex Ross, a comic-book artist who has worked on anniversary tributes to Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman and Captain Marvel, was chosen to draw Oscar.

Copies of the poster will be sold until April 9 on the official Academy Awards Web site.

'The Gold Knight Returns'

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Oscar Nominees

2002

Oscar Nominees

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TONIGHT!

The Razzies



22nd Annual Golden Raspberry ('RAZZIE') Award Nominees:

WORST PICTURE:

Driven (Franchise Pictures/Warner Bros.)
Freddy Got Fingered (20th Century-Fox)
Glitter (20th Century-Fox/Columbia Pictures)
Pearl Harbor (Touchstone/Disney)
3000 Miles To Graceland (Franchise/Warner Bros.)


WORST ACTOR:

Ben Affleck/Pearl Harbor
Kevin Costner/3000 Miles To Graceland
Tom Green/Freddy Got Fingered
Keanu Reeves/Hardball and Sweet November
John Travolta/Domestic Disturbance and Swordfish


WORST ACTRESS:

Mariah Carey/Glitter
Penelope Cruz/Blow and Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Vanilla Sky
Angelina Jolie/Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Original Sin
Jennifer Lopez/Angel Eyes and The Wedding Planner
Charlize Theron/Sweet November


WORST SCREEN COUPLE:

Ben Affleck & EITHER Kate Beckinsale or Josh Hartnett/Pearl Harbor
Mariah Carey's Cleavage/Glitter
Tom Green & Any Animal He Abuses/Freddy Got Fingered
Burt Reynolds & Sylvester Stallone/Driven
Kurt Russell & EITHER Kevin Costner or Courtney Cox/3000 Miles To Graceland


WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Max Beesley/Glitter
Charlton Heston/Cats & Dogs; Planet Of The Apes; and Town & Country
Burt Reynolds/Driven
Sylvester Stallone/Driven
Rip Torn/Freddy Got Fingered


WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Drew Barrymore (The Ex-Mrs. Tom Green)/ Freddy Got Fingered
Courtney Cox/3000 Miles To Graceland
Julie Hagerty/Freddy Got Fingered
Goldie Hawn/Town & Country
Estella Warren/Driven and Planet Of The Apes


WORST REMAKE or SEQUEL:

Crocodile Dundee in L.A. (Paramount)
Jurassic Park III (Universal)
Pearl Harbor (Touchstone/Disney)
Planet Of The Apes (20th Century-Fox)
Sweet November (Warner Bros.)


WORST DIRECTOR:

Michael Bay/Pearl Harbor
Peter Chelsom (w/Warren Beatty) Town & Country
Tom Green/Freddy Got Fingered
Vondie Curtis Hall/Glitter
Renny Harlin/Driven


WORST SCREENPLAY:

Driven Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone; Story by Jan Skrentny & Neal Tabachnick
Freddie Got Fingered Written by Tom Green & Derek Harvie
Glitter Screenplay by Kate Lanier, Story by Cheryl L. West
Pearl Harbor Written by Randall Wallace
3000 Miles To Graceland Written by Richard Recco and Demian Lichtenstein


NOMINATIONS PER PICTURE:

FREDDY GOT FINGERED: 8
(Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, 2xSupporting Actress, Screen Couple, Director, Screenplay)

DRIVEN: 7
(Picture, 2xSupporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screen Couple, Director, Screenplay)

GLITTER: 6
(Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Couple, Director, Screenplay)

PEARL HARBOR: 6
(Picture, Actor, Screen Couple, Remake, Director, Screenplay)

3000 MILES TO GRACELAND: 5
(Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Couple, Screenplay)

PLANET OF THE APES: 3
(Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Remake)

SWEET NOVEMBER: 3
(Actor, Actress, Remake)

TOWN &  COUNTRY: 3
(Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Director)

"WINNERS" WILL BE ANNOUNCED THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 23

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BartCop TV!

BC TV

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Thanks To Fud

Hear The 'Trifecta' Statement

(quoting)
'' And we've got a job to do at home, as well. You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. (Laughter.) Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) But we're fine. ''

Scroll down 31 paragraphs to read it for yourself.

Hear The 'Trifecta' Quote Here.



Many Thanks, to Fud, a loyal bartcopper : )

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11 New Recipes!

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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Entertaining Site!

Great Animations, Too

Jeff Crook has updated Uncommon Sense, again!

This weekend, it's the Complete Dick Before Congress...LOL

Monday's animation will be of Clarence Thomas and Shawn Hannity discussing Slappy's future in Washington.

Uncommon Sense...Check it out!

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Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

A New Look & Even More Information!

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'Bob Woodward vs. John Belushi and Me'

Michael Dare - 'The Life and Death of Captain Preemo'

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See It For Yourself

Sing Along With John Ashcroft

Sing Along With John Ashcroft

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Yoo Hoo

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Special Bonus From BartCop

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Freshly Updated

BartCop Astrology


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From BartCop

The Bush Rap (Sheet)

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