Bartcop Entertainment - Saturday, 6 April, 2002

Saturday

6 April, 2002

big hammer - bigger hammer

(Updated Daily)

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Reader Review

The Washington Squares

By Dave Romm



The Washington Squares
Post-punk Beat Generation Folk/Rock

The protest song isn't dead, and isn't just reggae and rap.

The Washington Squares, in the decade or so of their existence, only released two CDs, with a third CD comprising their first two plus a couple of unreleased tracks. Their web site claims, "The Washington Squares were one of the most influential New York bands of the late 1980s -- leaders of the folk revival and all that." I have no idea if this is true, but their two CDs are very good and highly recommended for anyone who thinks Peter Paul and Mary are wusses, is pissed that Phil Ochs left us too soon, admires the craftmanship of Dave van Ronk's protest songs and still can laugh at Tom Lehrer's Folk Song Army.

Washington Square (second to last real audio clip) was an instrumental hit in the 60s by the Village Stompers, refering to the place in Greenwhich Village near New York University in New York City. Back then then the style was called Dixieland, now it's probably closer to klezmer, even with the banjo. Whether the group took the name from the song or the college hangout, The Washington Squares epynomous CD starts off proclaiming a New Generation, a folk/rock march announcing they are "coming down strong, filled with inspiration". Most of the cuts are protest songs, though closer to the 50s Beat Generation railing against society and unfairness than 60s anti-war polemics. Yes, they even use a bongo. Coming between the rise of Solidarity and the fall of the Soviet Union, their inclusion of Walls, a Polish Union Song, is almost prescient. Still, my favorite cut is D Train, a driving anti-coprorate song. "Get up each morning at the crack of eight... take a train in a hole to a job I hate... each morning I'm taking a subway train to a desk with a phone and a ball and chain." Imagine an angry Dilbert who commutes. While it was hard to be generically angry about employment in the late 80s or to sing Lay Down Your Arms when Reagan was wagging the dog in Grenada, they hammer out their protest songs. A freshman album that doesn't sound sophomoric.

Their second album shows a wider range and more maturity. Fair and Square starts out with a version of Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows that I prefer to the original. A great song when you're mad at everything and everybody. Perhaps not Springsteen's Born In The USA, they effectively expose the puffery of blind nationalism with the rocker, Fourth Day of July. One of my favorites is Charcoal, a multicultural love song, at least as good as Three Dog Night's Black and White. Neal Cassidy is a eulogy to the driver/anti-hero of Jack Kerouac's On The Road and other works. Don't ever let La Roue De Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune, I think) break you. The third great song (imrho) on the album is Greenback Dollar, a cover of a Hoyt Axton tune that compares favorably with the Kinstron Trio version. Driving rock, angry and pulsing with an itch to move on needing only "women, song and a good guitar". Spoken like someone who doesn't like riding in the D Train; reminscent of the wanderlust in Green Green by The New Christy Minstrels with more about not needing money. They wind down the album with a love song and more protest songs to end with a short banjo reprise of Fourth Day of July.

Again, all tracks from both CDs and a couple of bonus tracks can be found on their 1997 reissue. The yahoo link says it's currently unavailable from them but Spun might have it. If I didn't have both CDs, I'd spend more time tracking down a copy for you.

Dave Romm is a conceptual artist with a radio show and a web site and a very weird CD collection. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here.



Thanks (again), Dave!

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Fun Site

Asticles

"Crack Heads!" - Prime Minister warns United Nations:
''It's Time for us Leaders of Small Nations to Act.''
 

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Behold! The 10 Test-Asticles*

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Fun Link

You Can Be Sonny Bono

This Page contains many perilous adventures you may experience as Sonny Bono. From time to time, you will be pressed to make a choice. Each choice may lead to fame, glory or Scientology. Be careful. The whole point of this elaborate exercise is as follows: you are responsible for the decisions you make in your life. You can't click the back button in the Web Page of Life. Think carefully before you make a bone-head move. One mistake could cost you a variety series, a restaurant, an election, your life.

Live Sonny Bono's Adventures

~~BTW


Thanks, B! I really liked this one!

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Next Friday, April 12, Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Ozzy

OZZY TO RECEIVE STAR ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME NEXT FRIDAY
INVITES FANS TO ATTEND


Next Friday, April 12, Ozzy will receive his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in front of the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, 6780 Hollywood Boulevard at the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Av. The ceremony will take place at 11:30am and Ozzy extends the invitation to all his fans to come down and share in the moment. Ozzy, the family, and other luminaries will be there to drink in the occasion, so if you're in SoCal you can't dare miss this!

For more details, Ozzy.com

Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce 'Walk Of Fame' Site has a bit of info about it, too.


Woo-hoo! Road trip next Friday!

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Got the kid's new computer & set it up. Abdul, the computer wizard, did a magnificient job on the customizing, and, I'm quite jealous.

TV was on in the background, but, I was having too much fun to remember much.

Watched Dennis Miller...between Alec Baldwin & Dennis' broken arm, indulged in a bit of good old-fashioned schadenfreude.



Tonight, Saturday, CBS has a fresh 'Touched By An Angle', then a rerun 'The District', followed by a fresh 'The District'.

NBC has a half-hour version of 'Dateline', and then the movie 'Kiss the Girls'. 'Saturday Night Live' is fresh and Cameron Diaz is hosting.

And, once again, ABC starts the night off with a rerun - 'Totally Outrageous: Love', about 'unusual' marriage proposals. At least it's hosted by Fred Willard. It is followed by the movie 'Romy & Michele's High School Reunion'.

The WB has the movie 'Silence Of The Lambs', which reminds me, fava beans should be in season.

Faux has 2 episodes of 'Cops', followed by 'America's Most Wanted'.

Once again, UPN here is neutralized with more of the Rockies visiting Rupert's Doggers.

AMC has 'The Grapes Of Wrath', 'The Demon Planet' and 'Count Yorga, Vampire'.

TCM has 'Soylent Green', and then seems to celebrate movies with bitchin' theme songs... 'Cat Ballou' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence'.

MTV has an hour of 'The Osbournes' at 10pm (est).



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



(See below for addresses)

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Banned For Life In TX?

Ozzy

The strangest story to appear in the English press of late is that strange old rocker Ozzy Osbourne has been invited to a White House dinner. They say pResident Dubya is a huge fan of the MTV miniseries about Ozzy and his dysfunctional family. Wonder if Bush knows that his home state of Texas has a lifetime ban on Osbourne performing there because he once urinated on the Alamo monument while wearing a dress.

Banned For Life In TX?

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Adapting 'Girls Just Want To Be Mean' For Screen

Tina Fey

"Saturday Night Live" head writer Tina Fey, who also co-hosts the show's "Weekend Update" with Jimmy Fallon, is angling to write her way into a big-screen acting debut.

She will adapt Margaret Talbot's Feb. 24 New York Times Magazine article, "Girls Just Want to Be Mean," for Lorne Michaels to produce via his Paramount Pictures-based SNL Studios.

Paramount plunked down a mid-six-figure sum for Fey to adapt the piece, which the writer brought to Michaels with an eye toward turning it into a high-concept comedy.

Fey is the first female head writer in "Saturday Night Live's" 27-year history.

Tina Fey

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200th Episode

'X-Files'



X-Files creator and Executive Producer Chris Carter, center, jokes around with a knife before cutting a cake to celebrate the 200th episode of the show along with cast members, from left, Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny Annabeth Gish and Robert Patrick, Friday, April 5, 2002, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Nick Ut

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Man With An Opinion

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman, the Princeton economics professor who writes an op-ed column for the New York Times, didn't make any new friends at the annual Gridiron Club dinner when he grumpily refused to applaud President Bush, Vice President Cheney, or the uniformed military commanders at the white-tie event. "He stuck out like a sore thumb," one witness told online newswire CNSNews.com, especially when everyone but Krugman rose to give the president a standing ovation at the end of his speech. It was noticed that Krugman, a zealot for higher taxes, applauded Sen. Tom Daschle and other Democrats.

A senior White House official complained that Krugman's behavior was contrary to the Gridiron's non-partisan, collegial spirit, and said if Krugman and his ilk have "that much disdain for the people they cover, then don't go to the dinner."

Krugman told the Web site: "I didn't think of myself being on show . . . This is the thought police. Next they'll say there was something wrong with the expression on my face. This is ridiculous."

Paul Krugman

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Fun Link

Morphing Bunnypants

Morping Bunnypants

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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!

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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'Papa Don't Preach'

Kelly Osbourne

Kelly & Sharon Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne's teen-age daughter is following in her father's musical footsteps, but don't expect her to bark at the moon.

Kelly Osbourne is recording a cover of "Papa Don't Preach," a No. 1 hit for Madonna in 1986, with Incubus members Mike Einziger and Jose Pasillas II.

The guys in Incubus have been friends with the Osbournes since first playing the Ozzfest concert tour in 1998, Incubus spokeswoman Melissa Dragich said Thursday. Einziger, the guitarist, and Pasillas, the drummer, agreed to back Kelly up before the band begins a U.S. tour next week.

But Kelly says she didn't choose to sing Madonna's rebellious pop song, which will appear on the soundtrack to the hit new MTV series "The Osbournes," due out in May.

"My mom did and asked me to do it," the pink-haired 17-year-old told MTV News this week. "I'm kind of (worried) because I don't think I'm a very good singer."

Kelly Osbourne

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High Profile Split

Cruz & Cruise

Mission Impossible 2 star Tom Cruise is reported to have split from his Latino partner Penelope Cruz.

He is believed to have called off the couple's wedding and told her to move out of his Los Angeles home.

Penelope was said to be so upset over the break up that she flew over to Spain to be comforted by her parents, according to the Daily Star.

Tom is reported to have refused to take Cruz to the Oscars last month and then told her he would always love Nicole Kidman.

This is the third time Tom has been involved in a high profile split. He married actress Mimi Rogers in 1987 before divorcing her three years later.

Tom then married Nicole in 1990 before splitting with her early last year.

Cruz & Cruise

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Lots Of Retro TV

For May Sweeps

Television's raging love affair with all things retro continues as CBS brings back the cast of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" for a one-hour reunion special set to air next month.

ABC on Thursday announced plans for an hour-long "Laverne & Shirley" special to be produced under the "Entertainment Tonight" banner. ABC also will reunite the stars of reality granddad "That's Incredible!" for an hour-long special, salute 50 years of "American Bandstand" and air two branded clip-fests produced in association with TV Guide and E! Entertainment Television.

Last week, CBS unveiled an hour-long 50th-anniversary salute to "The Honeymooners" and a two-hour tribute to the network's storied Television City studios.

Fox also is developing some retro-specials that could air in May -- including a possible "Three's Company" reunion -- while NBC is devoting the entire month to a celebration of its 75th anniversary as a radio and TV broadcaster, airing a slew of reunions and highlight shows.

The "MTM" reunion special, which began taping Thursday for broadcast at 10 p.m. May 13, will reunite Moore with co-stars Ed Asner, Valerie Harper, Betty White, Gavin MacLeod, Cloris Leachman and Georgia Engel.

ABC also has decided to turn April 29 into Gilda Radner night: In addition to a previously announced biographical TV film on the "Saturday Night Live" star, the network will air an hour-long special dubbed "Gilda's Greatest Moments."

The previously announced "American Bandstand" retrospective now is slated to air 8-10 p.m. on May 3.

Retro TV For May Sweeps

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Agreeing With PETA

More Ozzy

It wasn't so long ago that former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne was biting the heads off bats. Now, the 53-year-old metal rocker has hooked up with those paint-flingers at PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Osbourne, who's the subject of a hit show on MTV, wants South Korea to end its cruelty to dogs and cats and has signed a PETA petition that denounces the Koreans' taste for dog.

More Ozzy

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Lining Up Already

'Star Wars'

The waiting officially began Thursday with "Star Wars" devotees launching their line for the May 16 opening of "Episiode II -- Attack of the Clones" outside the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

By late afternoon, half a dozen fans had joined the line at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Orange Street. The group plans to pass the next six weeks by talking about "Star Wars" with passers-by, taking calls from the news media on a nearby pay phone and raising funds for the Starlight Children's Foundation.

"We never run out of things to do," said a cheerful Rik Carter, who also stood in the same line for six weeks prior to the opening of "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" in 1999. "The phone never stops ringing."

'Star Wars'

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Time To Win A Game

Anna Kournikova

Tennis temptress Anna Kournikova is taking very seriously the hints from her big-bucks sponsor, Adidas, that they'd like to see her start winning some matches. Anna, who hasn't won a tournament in 100 attempts, is thought to be getting about $4 million a year from Adidas alone, much to the chagrin of her better-playing but not as well-endowed rivals on the tour. I'm told that Anna is down in Miami working desperately to lift her game. She admits that her turbulent love life (one Russian NHL player after another) had spoiled her concentration in the past. But now she's found true love with Latin crooner Enrique Iglesias and can devote herself to getting back in the top 10. Enrique obviously wants to help - rumor has it that at his new home in Miami he's installed hardcourt, clay and grass courts for Anna, so that she's be able to excel on any surface.

Anna Kournikova

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Rock & Roll Auction

In Sydney & Online

A lifetime's worth of rock and roll memorabilia goes on sale in Sydney this month when rarities ranging from Michael Hutchence's Harley Davidson to a jacket worn by John Denver hit the auction block.

The Dave Norman collection includes telegrams from promoters to Beatles manager Brian Epstein bidding for concerts and letters relating to a bill from the Deauville Hotel in Miami that went unpaid for five months after the Beatles stayed there.

Auctioneers Goodmans said on the auction Web site at www.soldbyauctioneers.com/goodmans that the sale of 458 lots would take place on April 15.

Norman, a former disc jockey, started collecting 30 years ago but wants to move overseas without having to worry about a collection that now fills a 300 square meter warehouse.

They include a signed publishing contract by John Lennon for Wild Honey Pie, which was eventually sung by Paul McCartney, John Denver's personal Spring Tour 1978 jacket, a Drizabone rainproof jacket made for Celine Dion and a signed recording contract for The Doors, including Jim Morrison.

A number of Fender guitars will be on sale, including a maroon Telecaster signed by Van Morrison.

Other memorabilia, priced in the low hundreds to several thousand dollars ranges, from Nat King Cole and Elvis Presley to Guns n' Roses and AC/DC, from Ray Charles and Buddy Holly to Limp Bizkit and Jason Donovan.

In Sydney & Online

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Mansion For Sale

Bob Guccione

He may not be sell enough Penthouses, but X-rated magazine titan Bob Guccione is selling his lavish mansion to help cover losses at his troubled media company.

The 70-year-old founder of Penthouse magazine has just listed his Upper East Side limestone mansion for a whopping $40 million.

The 27,000-square-foot mansion on East 67th Street is just steps from Fifth Avenue. It also comes with a hefty property tax bill - more than $90,000 this past year, city records show.

Guccione has also lost some of his ability to speak because of throat cancer, which he has said is in remission.

Guccione has kept a $2 million art collection in the place, but it has been hocked to cover debts and its fate is uncertain.

Bob Guccione

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Grand Master At 14

Alexandra Kosteniuk



Russian chess player Alexandra Kosteniuk, 17, makes a move during an exhibition match against members of the diplomatic community in Moscow April 4, 2002. Kosteniuk, who became a grand master at the age of 14, caused a sensation when she came second in the recent FIDE World Chess Championships played in the Russian capital in December 2001.
Photo by William Webster

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Parting Of The Ways?

Krane & Travolta

It appears that one of Hollywood's more enduring manager/client relationships may be on the rocks, with Jonathan Krane and actor John Travolta considering an end to their 17-year association.

Krane and Travolta have been together through thick and thin -- though lately, things have been pretty thin for Travolta. Since the start of the new century, Travolta has appeared in several box-office duds, from "Battlefield Earth" to "Lucky Numbers" to "Domestic Disturbance."

Krane is a famously entrepreneurial manager with 33 films under his belt as producer.

Krane & Travolta

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Acquitted

Peter Buck

Rock star Peter Buck from top-selling American band R.E.M. was acquitted Friday of a drunken mid-air rampage and assaulting staff on a British Airways flight from Seattle.

The jury at Isleworth Crown Court in west London found the guitarist not guilty of being drunk on an aircraft, two counts of assaulting crew members and one of damaging British Airways property.

During the three-week trial, the court was told that Buck, 45, went on an alcohol-fueled rampage through the first-class cabin on a British Airways flight from Seattle on his way to perform a concert in front of Nelson Mandela in London last April.

The prosecution accused Buck of consuming 15 glasses of wine, overturning a cart, assaulting two cabin crew members, trying to open the emergency exit and trying to hide a knife up his sleeve.

Buck's defense said the musician had blacked out after taking a sleeping pill with alcohol.

A string of rock stars lined up to testify on Buck's behalf, telling the court such behavior was totally out of character.

Peter Buck

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Scaling Back The 'Book Club'

Oprah Winfrey

TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey said on Friday she was finding it harder to find novels she felt "absolutely compelled to share" and will scale back on selections for her book club.

Winfrey recently chose Toni Morrison's "Sula" as her third selection this year and 46th for the club she launched in 1996 to try to get Americans to read more. A book's selection guarantees it a place in best-seller lists.

Winfrey, among the top-earning entertainers with an estimated $150 million in earnings in 2000, has announced she will retire the show after the 2005-2006 season.

Oprah Winfrey

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New York Times Buys 50%

Discovery Civilization Channel

Newspaper publisher The New York Times Co. on Friday said it bought a 50 percent stake in a history channel owned by Discovery Communications Inc. (DCI) for $100 million in a move to revamp its content, expand distribution and cross promote both companies' brands.

Discovery Civilization Channel, which is available in 14 million U.S. households and features programs on epic events, cultures and leaders, made its debut in 1996 during the boom of satellite digital platforms.

Additionally, DCI will engage the services of The New York Times' television production unit to produce $40 million of programming over the next five years.

Discovery Civilization Channel

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Will Never Again Raise His Hand

Jim Brown

Football great and former actor Jim Brown, who chose jail over community service for vandalizing his wife's car, says he'll never get violent again.

"I will never again raise my hand to anyone regardless of what they do to me," Brown told Bob Costas for Thursday night's "On the Record" on HBO. "It's such a weak gesture. I regret any physical acts against anyone."

The 66-year-old was convicted of misdemeanor vandalism. Jurors acquitted him of the more serious charge of making a terrorist threat during an argument with his wife in 1999.

Judge Dale S. Fischer initially sentenced Brown to a year of domestic violence counseling. She also ordered the Hall of Fame running back to spend 40 days on a work crew cleaning up streets or do 400 hours of community service, pay $1,800 in fines and serve three years of probation.

But Brown, who finished sixth in an Associated Press poll of the 20th century's greatest athlete, refused to do that. So the judge imposed a six-month jail term.

Jim Brown

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Baby News

Parker & Broderick

HBO is suspending production of "Sex and the City" following the news that the show's star, Sarah Jessica Parker, is pregnant.

The fifth season of the Emmy-winning series, which follows the sexual escapades of four Manhattan women, had been scheduled to begin in June, but HBO tentatively has pushed it back to July.

HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer said the first two episodes of the 13-week season are being shot now and should be done by Wednesday. Then, the show's producers will wait a few weeks to decide whether they can complete all 13 episodes; if not, they may do just eight.

Parker, who has won Golden Globes the past three years for her portrayal of sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw, is expecting a baby in the fall with husband Matthew Broderick.

It will be the first child for the 37-year-old actress and Broderick, 40, who recently completed a run in "The Producers," one of biggest hits in Broadway's history. The couple married in May 1997.

Parker & Broderick

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Writers Guild of America

Strike At CBS?

Members of the Writers Guild of America have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against television network CBS should negotiators fail to meet a deadline of midnight Friday for a new labor contract, the writers' group said on Thursday.

Some 98 percent of the news writers, editors, promotional writers and producers, artists, and assistants covered by the contract at CBS voted to authorize a possible strike.

The writers' current contract with CBS expired April 1, but the current terms were extended through April 5 while negotiators continue to meet.

Writers Guild members last struck against CBS in 1987. That walkout lasted six weeks.

Writers Guild of America


A real Hollywood union! Not like IATSE, the International Alliance of Thieves, Shits and Evildoers.

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Still Seeking Volunteers

'The Osbournes'

Couple of nights ago, put up a page devoted to 'The Osbournes'

C'mon....send your thoughts, your impressions, your views, your favorite quotes...

Scroll down for lots of addys to pick from (or 'from which to pick', for the truly anal retentive).

And, thanks to those who have taken the time. Should have more posted over the weekend.

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Breaking With Tradition

Princess Anne

When Princess Anne broke with tradition by marching alongside the men at the Queen Mother's funeral procession today, no one should have been surprised.

In times past, form dictated that the women were kept well away, but not Anne, who has always broken the royal mould.

Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, the Olympic horsewoman has consistently shirked the role of fairytale princess with a no-nonsense approach to life and doggedly dowdy dress sense, refusing even to allow her children to be given titles.

"I simply wasn't their image of a princess," she told an interviewer in 1988. "I was a huge disappointment to everybody concerned...It's impractical to get dressed and go round in life dressed in a long white dress and a crown."

But the brusque royal dubbed "Princess Sourpuss" gradually won over the public with tireless charity work -- she is the busiest member of "the firm" -- and was a stalwart in the House of Windsor when all around her foundered.

"In recent years - and especially since the death of Princess Diana - she (the Queen) has turned increasingly to Anne, whose sound opinions she has come to value," Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, wrote this week.

On Friday, she took her place among the men.

In a dark military uniform -- outdoor-loving Anne usually prefers headscarves or jodhpurs -- the princess was the sole female among 14 royals following the coffin on foot.

It was fitting recognition of a woman who consistently performs more duties than any other royal. Indeed as long ago as 1987, the queen named her daughter Princess Royal, the highest accolade given to a female member of the monarchy.

When her brothers' marriages crumbled in the early 1990s, opinion polls recorded a surprising degree of support for the crown to pass on merit to Princess Anne, eighth in line to the throne, rather than follow the male line.

Princess Anne

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The Koh-i-Noor

Queen Mother

Prince Charles is seen behind the coronation crown as he follows the coffin of the Queen Mother during the procession to the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in central London, April 5, 2002. The coveted Koh-i-Noor diamond forms the centerpiece of the crown. Photo by Russell Boyce

A diamond with a bloody history sat atop the Queen Mother's coffin at today's ceremonial procession to her lying-in-state.

Coveted by Mogul Emperors, hidden in a sultan's turban, once claimed by the Taliban for Afghanistan -- the Koh-i-Noor ranks as one of the world's most notorious gemstones.

The jewel in the Queen Mother's crown -- also claimed by India, Iran and Pakistan -- has forever been cursed.

A Hindu proverb once warned: "He who owns this diamond will own the world but will also know its misfortunes. Only God or a woman can wear it with impunity."

For some more of the history of the The Koh-i-Noor

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In Memory

Roy Huggins

AKA: John Thomas James

Roy Huggins, the writer, creator and producer of such television shows as "The Fugitive," "The Rockford Files" and "Maverick," died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 87.

A pioneer in development of filmed TV episodes, Huggins joined Warner Bros. in its early efforts to get into the booming television business, which at the time was broadcast live. "Cheyenne," "Colt 45" and "77 Sunset Strip" were among his successful series.

In 1962, he joined Universal Television and he served as executive producer on the TV series "The Virginian." He was the creative force behind many more series including "Run For Your Life" and "Alias Smith and Jones."

Earlier, he worked at Columbia Pictures as a writer and director of feature films, including "Too Late for Tears" in 1949 and 1952's "Hangman's Knot," starring Randolph Scott and Donna Reed.

He formed an association with Stephen Cannell while at Universal and it led to their co-creating and producing both "The Rockford Files" and "Baretta." In the summer of 1985, Cannell brought Huggins out of retirement to take over a new series, "Hunter."

During a half-century entertainment career, Huggins wrote 350 scripts for television and film, many of them under the pseudonym "John Thomas James" after the names of three of his sons.

Roy Huggins

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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