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Selected Sunday Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Springlike & breezy.
Think I'm coming down with something - either that, or there's a porcupine stuck in my throat.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then a
RERUN 'Without A Trace', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: Miami'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a RERUN
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a FRESH 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'The 10 Commandments'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Charmed', then a FRESH 'High School Reunion'.
Faux has a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by another RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by another
RERUN 'Simpsons', then a RERUN 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has the movie 'Rocky V', followed by 'Biography' (Duane 'The Rock' Johnson), then another 'Biography' (Andre The Giant), followed by still another 'Biography' ('Stone Cold' Steve Austin).
AMC offers the movie 'Fletch Lives', followed by the movie 'Dudley Do-Right', then the movie 'Tough Guys'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Shepton Mallet;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Detling;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Johnson;
[7:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Burrows;
[8pm] 'House Doctor - Episode 12;
[8:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Kate: Croydon;
[9pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Jane Anderson;
[9:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Thame;
[10pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[10:40pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 12;
[11:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Kate: Croydon;
[12am] 'What Not to Wear' - Jane Anderson;
[12:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Thame;
[1am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[1:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Johnson;
[2:30am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Burrows;
[3am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 12;
[3:30am] 'The Life Laundry' - Kate: Croydon;
[4am] What Not to Wear' - Jane Anderson;
[4:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Thame;
[5am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[5:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Significant Others', another 'Significant Others', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Kevin Costner), followed by the movie 'Waterworld'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Saving Silverman', followed by the movie 'One Night At McCool's', then 'Chappelle's Show', followed by another 'Chappelle's Show'.
History has 'Dead Reckoning', 'True Crime', another 'True Crime', 'Mail Call', and 'Tactical To Practical'.
IFC -
[2:00 PM 'IFC In Theaters';
[2:15 PM 'Kicking And Screaming' (1995);
[4:00 PM 'The Thin Blue Line' (1988);
[5:45 PM 'Great Expectations' (1998);
[8:00 PM 'Menace II Society' (1993);
[9:45 PM 'The Anniversary Party' (2001);
[11:45 PM 'Menace II Society' (1993);
[1:30 AM 'Sugartown' (1999);
[3:15 AM 'The Anniversary Party' (2001);
[5:15 AM Short: 'Period Piece'. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Gulliver's Travels' (part 1 of 2), followed by the movie 'Gulliver's Travels' (part 2 of 2).
Sundance -
[2:30PM] '7th Street (Documentary);
[3:50PM] 'Margarita Happy Hour (Feature);
[5:30PM] 'Tanner '88: Something Borrowed, Something New' (Short);
[6PM] 'No Such Thing' (Feature);
[7:45PM] 'Stiltwalkers' (les Echassiers) (Short);
[8PM] 'Shorts Program 110' (Short);
[9PM] 'The Sea' (World Cinema);
[11PM] 'The Monkey's Mask' (World Cinema);
[12:30AM] 'Sirens' (1994) (Feature);
[02:05AM] 'Amy's Orgasm' (Feature);
[3:35AM] 'No Such Thing' (Feature);
[5:20AM] '7th Street' (Documentary). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM offers 3 films with
James Stewart, including 'Harvey' (1950),
where Elwood P. Dowd pretty much sums up my current philosophy:
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" -- she always called me Elwood -- "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me."
[6am] 'Without Love' (1945);
[8am] 'Little Women' (1933);
[10am] 'Lovely To Look At' (1952);
[12pm] 'The Farmer's Daughter' (1947);
[2pm] 'Ransom' (1956);
[4pm] 'Madigan' (1968);
[6pm] 'Rear Window' (1954);
[8pm] 'The Rare Breed' (1966);
[10pm] 'Harvey' (1950);
[12am] 'Champagne' (1928) SILENT ;
[1am] 'Life With Father' (1947);
[4am] 'A Soldier's Plaything' (1931);
[5am] 'Tales of the Navajos' (1949). (ALL TIMES EST)
A giant Kermit the Frog is walked past the Washington Monument on Constitution Avenue in Washington, Saturday, April 3, 2004, during the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade.
Photo by Susan Walsh
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Not 'All That Happy' With Bush
Merle Haggard
Country singer Merle Haggard says he's as red, white and blue as they come, but has been disappointed by how resident Bush responded to the panel probing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Haggard, 66, has been critical in songs and in interviews of the Iraq war and of what he views as an erosion of individual freedom.
On Thursday he cited the administration's flip flop on National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's requested testimony to the Sept. 11 panel as another example of poor leadership.
"There have been some things, like saying no with (Condoleezza Rice) to begin with and then having a White House reversal," Haggard said in a telephone interview from California. "I don't think a White House reversal looks good anytime."
Merle Haggard
Jill Whelan, (R), who portrayed the daughter of Captain Stubing in the television sitcom 'The Love Boat,' is all smiles, April 2, 2004, after getting married on the Caribbean Princess to Michael Chaykowsky of Princeton, N.J. From left is Bernie Kopell, who played the ship's doctor and Gavin MacLeod, Whelan's television father. After the wedding, Whelan assumed the role of ship's godmother to officially name the first Princess Cruises' vessel to be dedicated to Caribbean voyages.
Photo by Andy Newman
Suit Against Clear Channel to Proceed
'Nobody In Particular Presents'
A federal judge ruled on Friday that media giant Clear Channel Communications Inc.'s cluster of radio stations in the Denver area do not constitute a monopoly in the concert business as charged by an independent promoter.
However, U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham did find that plaintiff "Nobody In Particular Presents" made strong enough arguments that Clear Channel attempted to create a monopoly. The judge's decision allows the independent concert promoter's lawsuit against Clear Channel to proceed.
The case has been described as a "David vs. Goliath" scenario that pins the independent promoter against Clear Channel, which owns and operates eight radio stations in Denver, the maximum allowed by the Federal Communications Commission.
Nobody in Particular's lawsuit filed in federal court says that Clear Channel's radio stations in Denver play songs by artists whose concerts are handled by Clear Channel's concert promotion arm, but the same stations do not play songs by bands that give concerts promoted by Nobody in Particular.
Clear Channel's stations do not accept paid advertising by Nobody in Particular, which the judge said provides sufficient evidence to show that Clear Channel intends to create a monopoly power for itself in the rock concert promotions market.
'Nobody In Particular Presents'
Starts Drive for Iraqi Children
Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise was alarmed by what he saw at an Iraqi school while on a trip to visit U.S. troops: School supplies were so scarce that several children were sharing a single pencil and notepad.
So he started a school supply drive at his children's California school — an effort that's grown to include nonprofit groups, FedEx Corp. and Laura Hillenbrand, author of "Seabiscuit — An American Legend."
"This is a nonpartisan, nonpolitical issue," said Sinise, who was in Kansas City on Thursday to kick off Operation Iraqi Children, to send school supplies and Arabic translations of "Seabiscuit" to Iraq.
Gary Sinise
Operation Iraqi Children
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
TV Special
Motown's 45th
Two decades after Michael Jackson caused a sensation by moonwalking across the stage during the venerable label's 25th anniversary special, the self-proclaimed "King of Pop" and many of his former labelmates will be absent from the ABC show.
The concert special, celebrating the greatest hits of the Detroit hitmaking factory founded in 1959 by Berry Gordy Jr., tapes on Sunday at the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles and is set to air in May.
The sole Jackson 5 alumnus to appear will be Michael's lesser-known elder brother, Jermaine. He is expected to perform a duet with Nick Lachey, the former 98 Degrees frontman now better known as Jessica Simpson's better half.
Former Supreme Mary Wilson, a charter member of the Motown trio, will reunite with Cindy Birdsong (who replaced Florence Ballard in 1967) and Kelly Rowland of the contemporary R&B threesome Destiny's Child for a Supremes tribute.
Martha and the Vandellas will also perform. Smokey Robinson will be there, too, but without the Miracles. And Gladys Knight will perform with one of her original Pips and some substitute "celebrity Pips," the ABC spokeswoman said.
The Temptations will appear with lone charter member Otis Williams and four stand-ins for his deceased cohorts. The Four Tops are down to two original members -- Abdul Fakir and Renaldo Benson. Co-founder Lawrence Payton died of cancer in 1997, and lead vocalist Levi Stubbs is too ill to perform.
Motown's 45th
A woman arranges a traditional Orthodox Easter egg painted with the image of Jesus Christ at Bucharest's Peasant Museum during a Palm Sunday fair, where hundreds of artisans from all over Romania gathered to show and sell their goods, April 3, 2004. Romanians, like other Eastern Europeans who share the Orthodox religion, will celebrate Easter on April 11.
Photo by Bogdan Cristel
China Arrests
Tibetan Musicians
Chinese state security officials have arrested a popular Tibetan singer and a composer, apparently because of the implicit political content of their music, an official said.
The singer and composer, known as Namkha and Bakocha respectively, were taken into custody around March 10 in Tongde county, a traditionally Tibetan area now part of northwest China's Qinghai province, a police officer and the US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) said.
The arrests appear to have been prompted by the mildly political content of Namkha's songs, RFA sources said. The songs in question are titled "Tsenpoe Poinya," or "King's Messenger," and "Amdo Pogoe," meaning "Courageous Amdo Man."
Tibetan Musicians
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Claimed Farm Tax Break
Michael Jackson
Pop star Michael Jackson has saved more than $1 million in property taxes on his Neverland Ranch by claiming the California land conservation tax break, but a year ago, California officials decided he had developed too much of the property to qualify for it.
The tax break, which Jackson began claiming when he bought the property in 1988, reduced his tax bill by about half.
Last April, county inspectors visited the property and found it was not in compliance with the law governing the tax break, under which he was allowed to develop only 2 acres of the ranch. Jackson had developed about 37 acres, according to county records. Today, the once virgin land includes a dazzling Peter Pan theme park, complete with a zoo, a small railway system, an 80-seat theater, a Ferris wheel, carousel, bumper cars and a 25-room Tudor mansion.
Michael Jackson
Veiled Iraqi women parade in Sadr City, a northern Baghdad, Iraq, neighborhood, Saturday April 3 2004. Thousands took part in a parade of the Al-Mehdi army, a shiite group founded by Muktada Al-Sadr.
Photo by Samir Mizban
Scuffled With Paparazzi
Chris Martin
Chris Martin, lead singer of the British rock band Coldplay, faces possible charges following a scuffle with a photographer outside a London restaurant, Scotland Yard said.
A spokesman for the band confirmed that there had been an altercation between Martin and a paparazzi photographer on Wednesday, as he was climbing into a taxi in company of his wife, the US actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
Scotland Yard's spokesman said the alleged victim had suffered minor cuts and scratches, but had not required hospital treatment.
Chris Martin
Worker Bill Harper manually moves time ahead on the Market Hall Clock Tower in downtown Peterborough, Ont. on Saturday, April 3, 2004. Time springs forward one hour on Sunday for daylight savings time in the United States and Canada.
Photo by Clifford Skarstedt
Brazil
Vampire Bats
Rabies-carrying vampire bats killed at least 13 people in a remote Amazon town in Brazil's northern state of Para last month, authorities said on Friday.
The state health care department said the thumb-sized creatures had attacked about 300 people -- an unusually high number -- since March 2 in the riverside Portel area, next to the world's biggest estuarine archipelago of Marajo.
The spokeswoman said government scientists suspect the attacks are linked to a change in the bats' migration pattern caused by deforestation.
Vampire Bats
Missing Score Found in Japan
Johann Sebastian Bach
A missing musical score composed by Johann Sebastian Bach was found in Japan, scholars said, calling it an invaluable discovery for musicians and researchers around the world.
The 1728 composition, called "Wedding Cantata BWV 216," was found among the possessions of Japanese pianist Chieko Hara, who died in Japan in 2001 at the age of 86.
The score was hand-written under Bach's supervision for the 1728 wedding of the daughter of a customs official in Leipzig, Germany.
Researchers believe Hara, who spent much of her career in Europe, might have received it from her Spanish husband and cellist Gaspar Cassado, who knew Mendelssohn's descendant.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Three-day-old bald eagle chicks, from left, Ele, Twila, and Sven are held by the hands of animal keeper Rachel Orlando Friday, April 2, 2004, at the San Francisco Zoo Avian Conservation Center in San Francisco. Hatched from DDT-contaminated eggs retrieved from wild nests on Santa Catalina Island, these chicks would probably have perished due to the thin egg shell associated with DDT contamination. The chicks will be placed back into wild nests next week where adult parents will raise them. Since 1991,the San Francisco Zoo's Bald Eagle Recovery Project has released 70 bald eagles on Santa Catalina Island and Santa Cruz Island, contributing to the recovery of this species in these areas.
Photo by Ben Margot
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