Bartcop Entertainment - Saturday, 10 November, 2001

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Saturday

10 November, 2001

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Charlie Watts Says So

Stones Tour

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has confirmed that the band plans to reunite next year for a special 40th anniversary tour.

Watts, who is currently performing with his jazz group in New York, said: "As far as I'm concerned, it will happen. We said we would do it in June and we are gearing up to it."

Watts describes his jazz, which is hard to categorise, as "mainstream" or "straight-ahead".

Watts is passionate about both the Rolling Stones and his jazz, but admits that he is more relaxed with his group, adding that "the world of the Rolling Stones is quite hyper".

He has no plans to retire from jazz but he does acknowledge that age is a factor when it comes to the longevity of the Rolling Stones. He wants the band to do an anniversary tour next year before it is too late.

He says: "I think it's time to do it, and I think if we leave it any longer we really will be too old to do it. I think there's a time when you have to look at this. It's a Britney Spears world. I'm not in that world."

Charlie Watts & The Rolling Stones Tour

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night's TV

Started out surfing, and that's not a good thing. Finally ended up watching 'Sabrina, The Teenage Witch' as the least objectionable program. Ewwww.

'Ellen' has nice lighting & sets.

Finally, turned off the tv's sound, fired up the old Winamp, and listened to music.



Tonight, CBS has it's usual line-up of 3 hour-long dramas, 'Touched By An Angel', 'Citizen Baines' (should be the final episode), and 'The District'.

ABC has another rerun of 'Who's Line Is It Anyway?', and the movie 'Mission Impossible'.

NBC has 'Shakespeare In Love', and 'SNL' is fresh.

If you get AMC, today's oddity is 'American Hot Wax', which is notable for being Jay Leno's big screen debut. (You won't wonder why he didn't do much more film work after seeing this movie).



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



(See below for addresses)

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Fulfillment Fund's Stars 2001 Award

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Sparky & Marilyn Katzenberg

DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg, center, smiles as he holds the Fulfillment Fund's Stars 2001 award at a benefit where Katzenberg was honored for his educational contributions to Los Angeles youth, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2001, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

The event was part of the opening of the $615 million Hollywood & Highland entertainment complex, where the Academy Award will be held next year, in the 3,500-seat Kodak Theatre. Also pictured are Katzenberg's wife Marilyn, second from right, and Dr. Gary Gitnick, founder of the fund.
Photo by Rene Macura

The Katzenbergs


Jeri Ryan At The Katzenberg Tribute

The festivities were also attended by Jeri Ryan and Mira Sorvino.

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National Press Club IN D.C.

Pickles Speaks

Laura Bush spoke today about some of the fears she had experienced at the White House since Sept. 11, but she also made an audience roar with laughter at a sly reference to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Asked in an unusual question- and-answer session after a speech at the National Press Club if she would write a book about education or her life at the White House, Mrs. Bush replied with a big grin, "I guess it'll be whether or not I can get that $8 million advance." Mrs. Bush was referring to the $8 million that Simon & Schuster paid for the former first lady's memoirs, scheduled for publication in 2003.

Mrs. Bush's speech was the latest display of the more public role she has assumed since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Mrs. Bush described her husband as more serious since Sept. 11, but said he did not seem more tired or tense.

"We still try to say things to each other to make each other laugh and to be funny," she said. "I think laughter a lot of times defuses nervousness or feelings of anxiety."

Asked what she did to relieve stress, she replied, "Oh, I read. I'm also working out. Can y'all tell?" As the crowd laughed, Mrs. Bush shifted back from the lectern to show off her fitted lavender suit.

"I read all the time," she said, "and I read for inspiration, but also for diversion, when I'm anxious."

Mrs. Bush said that she was grateful for help from Mrs. Clinton.

"Mrs. Clinton was very generous with her time when we finally found out my husband had won," Mrs. Bush said. "And we came here that week in December. She was very generous with a tour of the White House. She talked a lot about things she might have done differently and gave me some advice, which I'm not going to tell you what it was."

Mrs. Bush also said that the terrorist attacks had prevented her and the president from attending parents' event a few weekends after Sept. 11 at the University of Texas, where their daughter, Jenna, is a student. Instead, Jenna and her twin, Barbara, a student at Yale University, came to Washington that weekend.

"I know they're very, very proud of their father, and they're probably slightly worried, but they don't really tell us that that much," Mrs. Bush said.

As for a book, Mrs. Bush said, "I thought it might be fun to write a baby book, the little hard, cardboard books that you read to babies and babies chew on." The subject, she said, might be Barney, the Bush family dog.

Pickles Bloviates


Hillary Clinton writes books for adults, not daydreaming about how 'fun' it would be to write a book for babies.
(The twins don't tell their parents much - big surprise there, too.)

Why does Pickles make me think of 'The Stepford Wives' on Paxil?

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Day 4 - Eddington Recants

Re: Clooney Vs. O'Reilly

George Clooney

British Airways chief executive Rod Eddington denied yesterday — through his spokesman — that he has turned on American stars who are too afraid to fly.

Reuters picked up a story on Thursday from London's the Mirror in which Eddington was quoted praising New Yorkers but calling American celebrities from Hollywood "gutless cowards."

Eddington supposedly said: "They want everyone to see their movies and think how big and brave they are. But at the first sign of trouble they cower under their beds like gutless cowards. It's pathetic." He also allegedly said the same stars had retired "to their mansions."

When called to see if this were true, BAA spokesman Tony Cane denied the whole thing. "Categorically," he underlined. Cane says the Mirror overheard the conversation between Eddington and others, and that someone else near Eddington made these remarks.

"He didn't say it," Cane insisted. "He was supporting New York and not denigrating the stars on the West Coast. He wasn't making accusations against anyone."

Rupert Says It Didn't Happen

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New! Updated!

(6 Nov, 2001)

BartCop Astrology

The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, has provided another eye-opening set of charts!

A brief excerpt: " "The influence of the opposition across the 3rd/9th axis may indicate we have more to fear from domestic terrorism than a foreign entity. Sagittarius on the cusp of the foreign 9th house, with ruler Jupiter in Cancer, the sign most closely associated with home and country, in the home 4th, shows the source of anthrax and other bio-chemical threats are more likely from within our own borders; by a home grown group of domestic terrorists. The recent wave of breast beating, chest thumping, and flag waving can be attributed to the most excessive planet (Jupiter) transiting the most exorbitantly patriotic and jingoistic sign (Cancer). Jupiter also has jurisdiction over religion, so the source of these dreadful bio-terrorist attacks could very well be a group with a strongly opinionated religious axe to grind. "

Very interesting reading!

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Liberal Radio

Erin Hart

Erin Hart

Yes, there is some (not much) liberal (i.e. non-hate based) radio still out there.

Join Erin Hart at her regular time 9 p. to 1 a. (pst) Saturday night. She's pre-empted Sunday night for Seahawk football.

The Erin Hart Show begins at 9 pm (pst) Saturday on www.710kiro.com.

That's 9 pm to 1 am Saturday.

Listen online, and join in the chatroom.

We usually have a pretty good time.

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New Solo Album

Mick Jagger

Rolling Stone Mick Jagger will perform at a small party in Los Angeles next week to celebrate the imminent release of his new solo album, his spokeswoman said Friday.

The Nov. 15 event will take place at the El Rey Theatre, which has a capacity of about 700 people. The spokeswoman stressed that it will not be a full-blown concert. Instead, Jagger will play a couple of songs, including the new single, ''God Gave Me Everything.''

That song, which Jagger co-wrote with Lenny Kravitz, will be taped and then broadcast during a documentary that will air on ABC on Nov. 22. ``Being Mick'' is a one-hour special directed by Kevin Macdonald, who also shot the Academy Award-winning Munich Olympics documentary ``One Day in September.''

Jagger's album, ``Goddess in the Doorway,'' the fourth solo release of his career and his first since 1993's ``Wandering Spirit,'' will be released on Nov. 20 via Virgin Records.

Jagger In LA

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At The Apollo, Thursday Night

'R & B Foundation Pioneer Awards'

Fontella Bass

Despite being one-third of the Motown team that wrote hits for the Supremes, the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye, Brian Holland finds it a bit strange to be honored at the 12th annual R&B Pioneer Awards.

``I never thought of myself as being a pioneer,'' says Holland, who as part of Holland-Dozier-Holland penned some of the all-time soul classics, including the Temptations hit, ``Reach Out, I'll Be There'' and the Supremes' ``You Can't Hurry Love.''

Still, he's among the honorees along with soul legend Al Green, whose hits include ``Let's Stay Together,'' and ``Tired of Being Alone''; Sly & the Family Stone, the psychedelic '70s funk band; and the Emotions, known for dance classics ``Best of My Love'' and ``Boogie Wonderland.''

The Pioneer Awards, which the Rhythm and Blues Foundation handed out Thursday night at the Apollo Theater, recognize those who have made a deep impact on the development of rhythm & blues. They also carry a cash prize of $20,000 for groups, and $15,000 for individual artists. The lifetime achievement award, which went to Green, comes with a $25,000 check.

Thursday's ceremony was no different. Honoree Fontella Bass energized the crowd with a rendition of her hit ``Rescue Me''; another honoree, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely, laid on his back with a glow-in-the-dark instrument during his colorful performance.

And Sly & the Family Stone - minus the Sly - had audience members on their feet jamming when their acceptance speech turned into an impromptu performance of their smash, ``I Want to Take You Higher.''

Sly Stone, whose real name is Sylvester Stewart, has lived in seclusion for years. His mother, Alfa Stewart, accepted the award on her son's behalf. His sister, Rose Stone, said he had considered coming to the ceremony, but his father's recent death and the terrorist attacks kept him at home in Los Angeles. Still, she said Stone appreciated the award.

Stone was not the only no-show. Green, who retired from secular music years ago to become a reverend, was absent from the ceremony. A spokeswoman for the awards show said he was ministering to a church member.

Other honorees included Dee Dee Sharp, whose hits included the dance song ``Mashed Potato''; producer and songwriter Allen Toussaint, whose credits include the songs ``Yes We Can,'' which the Pointer Sisters turned into the No. 1 hit ``Yes We Can Can''; and late musician Louis Jordan, who had dozens of hits in the 1940s, including ``Caldonia'' and ``Is You or Is You Ain't Ma Baby.''

Lamont Dozier and brothers Eddie and Brian Holland had their heyday in the '60s and early '70s, defining the Motown sound with songs such as ``Stop! In The Name Of Love,'' ``How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)'' and ``Jimmy Mack.''

Although the trio no longer writes together as a group, they remain close, and have considered working together again someday, although not to write songs - they are mulling over plans to write a book.

R & B Pioneer Awards


For more info on the rhythm-n-blues.org

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The Lee Atwater Movie

Jay Mohr

Barry Katz Prods. and Ritz/Wilson Prods. have teamed to develop a film project based on John Brady's novel "Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater," with Jay Mohr attached to topline as the former Republican national chairman. Atwater, who died of a brain tumor in March 1991, was chief campaign adviser to Presidents Reagan and Bush. His intense, often abrasive way of navigating through the political scene gained considerable attention, especially during the 1988 presidential campaign that saw Bush defeat Democrat Michael Dukakis. He is perceived by some historians to have made lasting changes to the American political landscape. The book details Atwater's early beginnings in the South to his party days in college and his rise in the political scene, continuing through 1990, when the inoperable brain tumor that ended his life was diagnosed.

The Brain Tumor Is The Hero

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Updated!

BartCop TV!

BC TV

Visit the site at BC TV

The 'Vidiot' never seems to rest - and doesn't let little things like laundry or housekeeping get in the way!

Damn near every show on TV must is listed - days & days worth of great reading.

For an amazing variety of information on an awesome array of tv programs check out BC TV!

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Look Who's Turning 60

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman's 60th anniversary is this month, and it's being celebrated with a benefit comic book.

Artist Alex Ross has painted ``Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth,'' a 48-page, tabloid-sized graphic novel. Proceeds from sales of the original art from the DC Comics book, due in stores Wednesday, will go to a charity that helps victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The book was written by Paul Dini, with whom Ross collaborated on anniversary tributes to Superman, Batman, and Captain Marvel.

Wonder Woman Turns 60

Here's a site with lots of early Wonder Woman

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Nathan Lane's Replacement?

Jason Alexander

Tony-winning actor Nathan Lane is inimitable in "The Producers." But his own producers were concerned enough about his throat ailment to see whether "Seinfeld" alum Jason Alexander could be a possible replacement.

Brad Oscar, who plays Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in the musical, usually fills in for Lane. But word started going around the St. James Theater last week that producers had called Alexander after ABC canceled his sitcom, "Bob Patterson."

Alexander declined the offer.

John Barlow, spokesman for the Broadway smash, acknowledges that Alexander "and other actors" have been contacted. But Barlow contends the queries all involve "future productions, in Los Angeles and around the country. There is no expected health hiatus."

During an appearance on ABC's "The View" yesterday, Lane said: "The only way for [the polyp on his left vocal cord] to really go away, hopefully, would be to take an extended period of time off and not talk. But we don't want to do that."

He also said he's working with a vocal coach and he believes that the polyp, "a tiny, liquid-filled sac," is "filled with Chardonnay."

Meanwhile, Lane has scaled back his work schedule and will not be doing matinees for the next two weeks.

Nathan Lane

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Male Menopause At Its Muy Macho Worst

Geraldo Rivera

If Geraldo Rivera has his way, there will be a second war in Afghanistan — Geraldo Rivera vs. Christiane Amanpour.

Rivera, who will soon join Fox News as a war correspondent, has already started to position himself as a modern version of famed World War II reporter Ernie Pyle. Calling himself "the most experienced war correspondent in America today," Rivera told the Philadelphia Inquirer he has the credentials for his new Fox assignment. That might come as a surprise to CNN's Amanpour, considered by most observers to be the most proficient TV reporter over there.

"Geraldo wants to show Christiane how it's done," gloats one Fox insider.

He's also ready, it seems to take on Osama Bin Laden. "I'll kick his head in," Rivera says, "then bring it home and bronze it."

Presuming, of course, that he can find the terrorist leader. We all remember the luck Rivera had with Al Capone's vault.

Geraldo 'Defiler Of Ernie Pyle's Memory' Rivera

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Federal Clearchannel Commission?

Oh, That FCC

The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to begin a comprehensive examination of its rules and policies for a company owning multiple radio stations in local markets.

The agency said the goal of the review is to be more responsive to the market and at the same time safeguard and promote diversity and competition in the increasingly concentrated field of radio.

There has been a 25 percent decrease in the number of owners of commercial radio stations across the United States in the last five years, down to 3,800 from about 5,100 in 1996, according to the FCC.

The agency asked for public comment on what should be the scope of its interest in competitive radio markets, whether the definition of a market should be based on audience or advertising, and whether diversity should guide its public interest review of transactions.

Separately, the FCC gave some breathing room to television broadcasters* who are making the transition to digital signals by allowing them to build lower powered facilities that cover a smaller area and then expand as the transition moves ahead.

Commercial television stations are supposed to begin broadcasting in digital on May 1, 2002 but the transition has been slow in part because of high costs. The FCC also said stations in the core channel range of 2-51 will not have to chose the channel they will use for digital.

The FCC said it will select new dates for replicating full signals and channel election during its next periodic review of the transition. Roughly two-thirds of the commercial stations are expected to be broadcasting in digital by the May deadline, according to industry estimates.

FCC Looking Out For Corporations


* Way back in 1996, Congress passed the Communications Act of 1996 which GAVE AWAY - FREE TV frequencies in an effort to make the TV industry's own desire to go to HDTV less expensive for them, while allowing the citizenry to underwrite the cost as well as losing 'ownership' of the airwaves. Congress got their bribes, er, I mean lobbyist donations, the broadcasters got everything they wanted (and more), and the citizens lost one of their most valuable assets.
No film at 11.

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New!

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more (like 'Cranberry Autumn Tea'),
In The Kitchen With BartCop

Rumor has it there is a Thanksgiving Special coming up
(Just the thought....damn - hate it when I start drooling on the keyboard)!


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Another Perspective On 'Shallow Hal'

Carnie Wilson

Some of the fat jokes in "Shallow Hal" hit too close to home for Carnie Wilson. "I cried through half the movie," the formerly obese daughter of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson told the "Hot Ticket" TV show.

"I know it's a little dramatic to say, but I was so sad . . . it was making fun of fat people the entire movie." In another interview, Wilson said the sight gags about Gwyneth Paltrow's chubby character were particularly offensive. "A steel chair buckling, a booth breaking, I'm sorry, that wouldn't happen," Wilson declared. "I could see it happening with a plastic chair. That happened to me, and it hurts."

Carnie Wilson On 'Shallow Hal'

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Another Company Shuttered

'Propaganda Films'

Commercials and movies producer Propaganda Films abruptly shut down Thursday, another victim of the downturn in the media business.

All 40 employees, including president Rick Hess, lost their jobs and will have to vacate the 15-year-old firm's Hollywood offices by the end of the day Friday.

A representative of Safeguard Capital Partners, the venture capital group that was Propaganda's corporate parent, made the surprise announcement at a brief staff meeting Thursday afternoon. Even top execs were caught unawares.

Propaganda's interests included film and commercial production as well as literary management. The company also served as home base for the production companies of directors Spike Jonze, Simon West and Dominic Sena. Its commercial representation and production business acted as the firm's financial engine. However, that engine has sputtered of late.

While Thursday's shutdown came as a shock to its employees, the company saw its share of harbingers. In October, Propaganda missed a payroll, stopped making contributions to its health plan, laid off 30 staffers and reduced the salaries of those who remained by 20%.

Propaganda is currently in post-production on ``24 Hours,'' which will be released next summer by Columbia Pictures, and the Billy Bob Thornton starrer ``Behind the Sun,'' due to be released by Lions Gate Films.

The company also was preparing to go into production on the Paul Schrader-directed ``Auto-Focus,'' which stars Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe and will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. That project will be unaffected by the shutdown.

In the last year, Propaganda produced two other films, ``Bark'' starring Lisa Kudrow and Vincent D'Onofrio, and ``Southlander.''

Buh-bye Propaganda Films

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E! Entertainment Lays Off 9% Of Staff

Over 70 People

E! Networks, which comprises cable channels E! Entertainment Television and Style as well as E! Online, laid off 9% of its staff -- or 70-plus employees -- on Thursday.

The cuts were made across all areas of the company's business and all levels of seniority, E! Networks president-CEO Mindy Herman and chief operating officer Ken Bettsteller confirmed.

``Over the course of the year, we watched many of the folks in this industry do layoffs or a series of layoffs and restructuring. We had done everything we possibly could to avoid that scenario; we took great pride in the fact we had not done that until today,'' Herman said.

E! Networks is owned 79.2% by Comcast Corp./Walt Disney Co., 10.4% by AT&T Corp. and 10.4% by Liberty Media Corp.

E! Entertainment Lays Off 9% Of Workforce

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Audio Files From BC

Bonus Page Link

Here are some MP3 files from BC

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In German, In Germany

'Diana - The Musical'

A new musical that honors Princess Diana as a heroine on the scale of ``Evita'' or ``Aida'' opens this weekend in southern Germany.

Unlike the 1998 West End hit comedy ``Love Upon the Throne,'' which poked fun at the British royals' romantic escapades, ``Lady Di - Diana - A Smile Charms the World'' is intended as a ``memorial'' to the woman whose warmth and humanity redefined the House of Windsor.

German producer Karl-Heinz Stracke, who was in London at the time of Diana's death in 1997, said he was so struck by the outpouring of grief that he decided to honor the princess the only way he knew how - through music.

The cast of 40 is overwhelmingly made up of British actors, although the show will initially be performed in German. While many had experience singing in German, the spoken parts of the script demanded they undergo six months of intensive language training to make sure they could understand, and therefore convey, what they were saying.

Written by Volker Fuehrer, the musical depicts Diana as a woman who struggles with the responsibilities and pressures of royal life.

An actor does not portray Prince Charles. Charles, instead, speaks through Diana's secretary.

Despite such precautions, the script was passed through several libel lawyers.

'Diana - the Musical'

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Weekly Update

'Survivor: Africa'

Making good on his promise to shake things up, Survivor: Africa's diabolical producer pulled a Samburu switcheroo on Thursday night's episode, as tribe members were forced to change teams--and schemer Silas Gaither found himself all alone in Boran-ville without his lethargic alliance.

By a 5-1 vote, the 23-year-old pretty-boy bartender from Tennessee (aka the latter-day Jerri) became the first victim of a Survivor: Africa remix, in which three members from each team ended up swapping colors. After receiving word of an unknown "quest," each tribe picked three people to participate (Kelly, Lex and Tom from Boran, and Frank, Teresa and Silas from Samburu), only to be greeted with disturbing news.

"The game of Survivor is always changing, and it's about to change again," host Jeff Probst told the stunned contestants, just before sending Kelly, Lex and Tom to Samburu, and Frank, Teresa and Silas to Boran.

The news was a shocker for the oldster-shunning crew in Samburu--and even more shocking for the former Boran members who arrived to find their camp a mess, as the tribe had little firewood or drinkable water.

"It looked like a bunch of lazy people had been running the camp," Lex said. "It was obvious these people were napping all day."

Over at Boran, Silas' once-dominant alliance was now shattered, and his new tribe members weren't interested in putting up with his shenanigans. The group, figuring a tribal merger was near, decided to throw the immunity challenge. And soon, Gaither was a goner.

"The twists of the game were amazing," Silas said in his final words. "I kind of had my cards lined up the way I wanted them going into the merge, but I was with the two people that we were about to kick off, and I just couldn't recover from it. I was a threat to Ethan and the rest of the group."

'Survivor: Africa' Update

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10 Dressing Rooms For Her Entourage

J-Lo

When you're a star, you need plenty of room to shine and judging from her needs, American pop diva Jennifer Lopez must be one of the biggest stars around.

'J-Lo' has requested at least 10 dressing rooms for herself and her approximate 100-member entourage at the BBC's Top of the Pops Awards later this month.

``You don't go into dealing with J-Lo thinking she's going to arrive in the back of a camper van and take care of herself,'' Robin Ashbrook, producer of the inaugural event, told Reuters on Friday.

Ten rooms looked likely to be the minimum space needed to accommodate the 31-year-old singer and her coterie of choreographers, stylists, chefs, hairdressers and makeup artists.

``There are a lot of requirements to look after the world of J-Lo,'' he said.

Ashbrook said Lopez would perform a medley of four of her hits at the November 30 event, which celebrates the world's top pop acts.

Jennifer Lopez & The BBC

Koresh - 100 people entourage? That's like packing up a small village & taking it on the road...makes a pretty good case for 'ego & entourage are inversely proportionate to talent'.

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More Sad News

Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey, whose novel ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' became a classic of 1960s rebellion and whose rollicking stewardship of a group of hippies became the stuff of folklore, has been hospitalized with cancer of the liver and is critical condition, hospital officials said Friday.

Kesey roamed the United States in a psychedelic tour bus dispensing LSD in a 1964 journey as head of ``The Merry Pranksters,'' a group of his friends, that became the subject of one of Tom Wolfe's most famous forays into ``New Journalism'': ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.'' The driver of the bus was Neal Cassidy, the hero of Jack Kerouac's Beat classic 'On the Road.'

Kesey is also given credit for turning rock band The Grateful Dead on to LSD.

``He is in critical condition in the intensive care unit,'' Diane Mattoon, coordinator of Sacred Heart Medical Center, said.

The 66-year-old Kesey was admitted Thursday after surgery two weeks ago to remove a malignant tumor on his liver, a family friend told the Eugene Register Guard newspaper. Doctors also removed about 40 percent of Kesey's liver and the friend said it appeared the cancer had not spread.

Born in Colorado, Kesey grew up in the Pacific Northwest and wrote ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' in 1962, turning it into a play in 1963. It was made into a film by Czech-born director Milos Forman in 1975, starring Jack Nicholson, and won Oscars for best picture, best actor, best actress and best director.

In 1964, Kesey published ``Sometimes a Great Notion,'' a novel of a feuding Pacific Northwest family and critics put him in the same category as contemporaries Joseph Heller and Philip Roth.

But writing took a back seat to life and the then young author was arrested twice for possession of marijuana and fled to Mexico to avoid a stiff jail term. Kesey finally settled down on a farm in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, to raise his family.

One of the ``Pranksters,'' Sandy Lehmann-Haupt *, died earlier this week of a heart attack at age 59.

Kesey's condition is complicated by a diabetes and a slight stroke suffered in 1997.

A one-time champion wrestler and creative writing student at the University of Oregon, Kesey's life took a dramatic turn when he participated in drug experiments at Stanford University to earn extra cash.

In that program Kesey took drugs including LSD and mescaline and reportedly wrote parts of ``Cuckoo's Nest'' while high on drugs.

Ken Kesey

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In Memory

Mary Gorman

Mary Gorman, who helped bring honors to the Navajo code talkers of World War II, died Sept. 9. She was 77. She had been treated for heart trouble.

Gorman was a widow of one of the original 29 code talkers, who were part of a secret military operation during the war to develop an unbreakable code using a version of the Navajo language to relay messages.

When President Reagan prepared to issue a proclamation praising the code talkers in the early 1980s, Gorman worked to locate all those who had served. There was never an official list of code talkers, who numbered close to 400, because they were never an official military unit.

Through her efforts, most of the original 29 code talkers were represented when they were honored with Congressional Gold Medals in July. She had been trying to locate family members of other code talkers to be recognized with silver medals Nov. 24 in Arizona.

Mary Gorman

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Still Really Like This One....

"Boondocks" (9 Oct 01)

Boondocks: The Best Comic Strip Today

Gonna let it ride for awhile.

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Still MISSING


Over Vitebsk

Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"

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Is It Just Me, Or Does Big Boy Look Like Tom Ridge?

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